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> > CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO PUT TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE

> > INFORMATION ONLINE

> > In a recently announced venture, the Chinese government agreed to provide

> > Internet access to information about Traditional (TCM) on

> > a Houston InterWeb web portal. According to a news release from Houston

> > InterWeb Design, plans for the proposed English/Chinese language Internet

> > site include a diagnostic questionnaire that will provide instant TCM

> > diagnosis and potential treatment programs. Lee Magness, Houston InterWeb

> > CFO, says that the Web site will provide " access to literally hundreds,

> > even thousands of years of historical data about how these traditional

> > treatments have worked with hundreds of millions of people. " China

> > currently has more than 2,600 TCM hospitals and more than 2,000 factories

> > that produce TCM pharmaceuticals (many of which have been marketed in the

> > West), according to the release. The Internet joint venture is financed by

> > Hainan Dingshen Investment Company Ltd.

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> > Source: Source: Business Wire. InterWeb teams up with Chinese government

> > to put 5,000 years of Traditional online; China wants its

> > Traditional Medicine to be available globally [news release]. March 7,

> > 2000. Accessed at

> > http://www.npicenter.com/dailynewswire/archive/2000/03/07/bw/0000-4833-hou

> > ston-interweb.asp on March 14, 2000.

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> > For an article introducing TCM and other Eastern healing traditions

> > appearing in The Integrative Medicine Consult, please click on the

> > following link:

> > http://www.onemedicine.com/alert

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