Guest guest Posted May 27, 2006 Report Share Posted May 27, 2006 It is always in the interest of patients that all healthcare practitioners keep abreast of current therapies. An article like this brings several things to mind. First, the treatment is clearly a form of natural medicine in that it uses animal products (stem cells and collagen) rather than synthetic drugs. has along history of using animal products in medicine. It is also regenerative and curative, rather than palliative or destructive. It would fit in the realm of supplementing therapy and, of course, most urinary leakage in middle-aged women is due in part to spleen and kidney yang xu. Finally, chinese medicine has a long history of using human tissue containing stem cells (e.g., placenta), adopting medicines from other systems and cultures (e.g., mo yao and ru xiang), and embracing the latest in technology when it comes to the processing and extraction of raw medicinals (e.g., the use of distilled alcohol, which was invented by the Arabs in the middle ages, to produce highly effective liniments used as hit medicine). While much of the American herbal community has been biased towards the use of low tech methods and largely unprocessed plant materials, this has never been the case in china. http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/14637386.htm Chinese Herbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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