Evidence-Based Medicine for Traditional Chinese Medicine: Exploring the Evidence from a Western Medicine Perspective

This article reviews the evidence of clinical efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Extracts from single herbs have been studied by the conventional path of drug discovery to become useful drugs in Western Medicine (WM), testifying to the pharmacological activity of herbs used in TCM formu...

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Main Author: Yeh Ching Linn MBBS (S'pore), MRCP(UK)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-03-01
Series:Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/201010581102000103