Traditional Medicine

Learning to love the SMUDGE

8 Dec 2013

For a long time, I found smudge ceremonies kind of a pain. Those are the aboriginal ceremonies where sage or another traditional medicine is burned in a little bowl and passed around so everyone can waft the smoke over themselves. It's for purification, and it's a solemn, slow, peaceful, pungent

China makes key progress in Tibetan medicine study-Eastday

7 Dec 2013

XINING, Dec. 7 -- Chinesse scientists said great progress has been made in quality control technologies and standardization of traditional Tibetan medicine after 20 years of research.

Register products or face prosecution – FDA

7 Dec 2013

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has warned of the arrest and prosecution of people caught peddling unregistered herbal products. Mr. Vigil Edward Prah-Ashun, the Ashanti Regional Officer said the authority would stop at nothing to protect public health.