People are being warned to stop using a weight loss pill sold over the internet and in Chinese medicine shops.
"It was his sensitivity to gluten that was compromising his lungs, " he adds, citing that in Chinese medicine there's believed to be a relationship between the large intestines and the lungs.
Baicalein is used in traditional Chinese medicine and biochanin A is found in peanuts, chickpeas and other legumes.
"In traditional Chinese medicine, they feel your pulse, look at your tongue and smell your breath, " he told BBC News.
Harvard researcher Ted Kaptchuk trained for five years in traditional Chinese medicine, but then became one of the leading researchers into the placebo effect.
Mr. Bongers estimated that half of the 4, 500 metric tons exported each year from Ethiopia is shipped to China, where it is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Rippe said it's difficult to quantify exactly how much more concentrated the supplement is compared to foods, but he said the supplements are "consistent with" supplements that have been used by in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years.
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Hutchison Managing Director Canning Fok liked that idea but also saw an opportunity to get in on sales of traditional Chinese medicine in China, a segment of the pharma business that had not yet opened up to foreign investment.
Police said experts fear the rhino's horn could be ground down to use in black-market Chinese medicine.
Lord Pearson, a patron of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine in the UK, prompted laughter from peers by suggesting he had "benefited much from it over the years".
Hogg got enough money to build the first few of what are now six Chinese herbal medicine shops in London, operating under the Sen name.
Acupuncture and moxibustion are forms of traditional Chinese medicine widely practised in China and also found in regions of south-east Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Having studied for five years under top Chinese professors, he now co-writes learned papers on Eastern medicine in Mandarin, drawing on a deep knowledge of ancient Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
In 2000 the Chinese government finally opened the traditional medicine sector to foreign investment, and Chi-Med was one of the first in.
Officially, 1, 273 Western drug formulations are sold in China, far more than the 564 traditional Chinese medicine formulas, according to the 2005 Chinese Pharmacopoeia.
Her adherence to the unproven concepts of traditional Chinese medicine puts the science she presents later in the book on uncertain footing.
In Hong Kong, the authorities have set up a preparatory committee on Chinese medicine to pave the way for the licensing and registration of traditional practitioners.
Effects of the traditional Chinese herbal medicine Yi-Gan San for cholinesterase inhibitor-resistant visual hallucinations and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies.
In Chinese cities, an increasing number of companies are in the business of buying luxury cigarettes, wine, medicine, gold and silver accessories, and gift coupons at a discount.
"Dementia has emerged as a major health issue in the territory, " says Dr. Helen Chiu, a professor of psycho-geriatric medicine at the Chinese University.
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