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Chinese woman selling traditional medicines at a market |
Traditional Chinese medicine has even made it onto the region’s political agenda. China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, for example, has made the modernisation of traditional chinese medicine one of 12 focal points in its current Five-Year Plan, with US$3.6 million budgeted for screening both conventional chemical compounds and medicinal herbs for drug leads.
In this feature article, Dennis Normile examines some of the success of the region’s attempts to unlock the secrets of ancient herbal remedies, and reports on differing predictions of how well current efforts will pay off.
Link to Science feature article
Reference: Science 299, 188 (2003)
Photo credit: Andrea Fisch