chinese herbs repackage by Biotech company

[Guest guest]

Chinese Herbs are being repackaged by biotech company and submitted to

FDA for approval as drugs.

 

 

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=27840

 

 

Also on the other side of the coin, China is starting to protect

Traditional herbal knowledge as intellectual property.

 

http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=re

adnews & itemid=1852 & language=1

 

 

Wonder what our future will look like?

 

James Tang

Student of

[Guest guest]

Hi,

While I think it is an admirable attempt to try and protect these

intellectual property rights, China has forgotten one thing:

Because of the cultural revolution, there are many highly skilled

doctors of that has fled to other countries and are

now in the hua qiao (overseas Chinese) category. How are you going

to patent their knowledge?

 

And as for the biotech companies, they will always be missing the

point. Chinese herbal medicine is beyond cellular components of

things. Unless you have studied how to use Chinese Herbs, it can be

really dangerous to do what they are doing.

 

But they will probably find that out the hard way after killing many

people, and then blame it on the Chinese medicine, saying that it is

not safe. Just like the Xiao Chai Hu Tang incident in Japan...

 

Mei

 

 

, " james_tang68 "

<james.tang68@s...> wrote:

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>

> Chinese Herbs are being repackaged by biotech company and submitted

to

> FDA for approval as drugs.

>

>

> http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=27840

>

>

> Also on the other side of the coin, China is starting to protect

> Traditional herbal knowledge as intellectual property.

>

> http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=re

> adnews & itemid=1852 & language=1

>

>

> Wonder what our future will look like?

>

> James Tang

> Student of

[Guest guest]

Funny thing,

I had dinner and met with these folks here in San Diego three years

ago, and spoke with them about complex pharmacology being the wave of

the future. It was interesting to see this article and the result of

their work.

 

 

On Feb 12, 2005, at 9:09 AM, james_tang68 wrote:

 

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> Chinese Herbs are being repackaged by biotech company and submitted to

> FDA for approval as drugs.

>

>

> http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=27840

>

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