Why the African Union Stopped the Donkey Hide Trade with China
The African Union’s unprecedented decision to ban the trade of donkey skin ended a hitherto fast-evolving China-Africa business. It also is the result of an unusual agreement between the 55 African Union member countries on a matter that affects...
Chinese Medicine in the Covid Wards
from New York Review of BooksIn mid-February 2020, during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, Liu Lihong, a slight man with a wispy beard, made his way into Hankou Hospital No. 8 in Wuhan. Dressed in an all-white infectious disease suit, the only equipment he carried...
China’s Quest to Buy Up Global Supply of Donkeys Halted by African Nations
Donkey hide is used to make Chinese remedy ejiao, believed to improve blood circulation
Killer Knotweed Exposes Dangers of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Amid rising public concerns about side-effects of traditional Chinese medicines, or TCM, following the death of a young woman who died of liver failure last year, a government-backed medical association has started compiling a...
Nobel Renews Debate on Chinese Medicine
As China basks in its first Nobel Prize in science, few places seem as elated, or bewildered, by the honor as the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, hosts Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser speak with Christina Larson and Ian Johnson about Tu Youyou, the scientist who recently shared a Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of the anti-malaria compound...
An International Victory, Forged in China’s Tumultuous Past
On October 5, a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine went to 84-year-...
The Chinese Government Is Cranking Up the Nationalism After Its Nobel Win
In a way, the Nobel honor is a double-whammy for the Chinese government’s nationalist agenda.
Growing Demand in China for Africa’s Lion Bones
Traditional Chinese medicine—popular throughout Asia—long has prized the supposed medicinal value of tiger bones. Now, though, as the world’s wild tiger population is disappearing fast, even facing extinction, the Chinese medicine industry may...
China’s Regulations on Sale of Birth By-product in Chaos
In a cramped, quiet room, several bloody placentas sit in a machine, drying. Some workers then ground them down and filled capsules with the viscera. This gory scene is not from a horror movie but the day-to-day business of an underground...
Get Rich or Die Trying: The Chinese Herbal Medicine "Death Sentence" in Uganda
200,000 Ugandans have signed up to a company believing it will cure all their illnesses and help them make a fortune. But it is more likely to do the opposite.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Struggling to Find Cure for Regulatory Woes in the U.S.
In November, the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Fuzheng Huayu Tablets passed the second phase of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) clinical testing.
Before this, only one TCM drug had cleared the second of the three phases...
The Fate of Traditional Chinese Medicine
from Sinica PodcastBill Bishop swears by part of it. Jeremy Goldkorn swears regularly at it. Chances are you’ve got strong opinions on Traditional Chinese Medicine (T.C.M.) yourself,...
