Bear bile from the bear gall bladder is one of the most treasured of traditional Chinese medicines.
Prescriptions for bear gall first appeared in writing in the 7th century (Bensky and Gamble 1986).
Bear bile is believed to have special qualities to treat ailments of the liver, stomach and a diverse illnesses from fever to digestive disorders.
As Asian bear populations decline and wild bear bile and other bear parts become more difficult to obtain, sources of bear parts outside Asia will be developed by traders and others willing to make significant profits.

Oriental medicine has meant many things over the ages.
While building on common foundations of the ancient classics such as the Huang Di Nei Jing and the Shang Han Lun, it has developed differently in isolated pockets of the numerous countries of its origin, often in family traditions.
This institutional setting, with its various publications and educational opportunities, has benefitted practitioners in the West, who have enjoyed a rich exposure of the various medical models from Asia.
In addition, newer approaches to Oriental medicine have emerged from England, France, and Germany.

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The actions, indications and chemical constituents of the herbs in Western terms elucidate the broad Chinese symptom pictures; and the symptom groupings of Chinese medicine syndromes help make the precise information of Western pharmacology more clinically useful.
FREE & EASY WANDERER PLUS TEAPILLS (Jia Wei Xiao Yao Wan #3370) is an elaboration of Xiao Yao San recorded by Wen Sheng in 1860.
If you are not already familiar with these formulas or concepts please consult a licensed practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine and/or more in-depth reference materials.
In the UK this past summer, an emergency ban was imposed on the import, sale and supply of a traditional Chinese herb after two people suffered kidney failure in relation to the use of medicinal plants of the Aristolochia species. Chinese, Peter Holmes.
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There have been a number of clinical and empirical studies attesting to the effectiveness of various forms of meditation interventions for reducing psychological and medical symptoms in older and minority adults.
Quite a number of clinical descriptive papers have attested to the effectiveness of mediation for Chinese older adults and have suggested the need for controlled studies of the efficacy of meditation for this group.
Luskin and colleagues (1998) recently conducted a review of the empirical literature on the efficacy of alternative medicine treatments for cardiovascular disease in older adults.
Another study found that older male meditation practitioners had levels of serum dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA-S) that were comparable to non-meditators 5 to 10 years younger, indicating that meditation may modify age-related deterioration in DHEA-S secretion by the adrenal cortex (Glaser et al., 1992). meditation, Journal-English.

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