traditional chinese medicine slideshow
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Like most traditional Chinese medicine clinics, the Dalian Shengu Traditional Chinese Medicine hospital specially prepares each patient’s prescription individually.
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Traditional Chinese medicine preparation can seem haphazard when compared to its Western counterpart. Each of these drawers is filled with a different raw ingredient.
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Jun Zhou has been practicing traditional Chinese medicine for 20 years.
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Jun Zhou applies acupuncture needles to a patient.
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A young traditional Chinese medicine apprentice at a Beijing clinic.
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Tong Ren Tang, one of Beijing’s largest traditional Chinese medicine outlets.
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At each of four traditional Chinese medicine clinics visited in Beijing, workers tried to impose a ‘no photos’ rule.
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Various medicinal ingredients on display at a Beijing market.
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Dried sea cucumbers are often used in traditional Chinese medicine. Sea cucumbers are also considered a dining delicacy.
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Dried lizard for sale at Tong Ren Tang market in Beijing.
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A stuffed pangolin, surrounded by stuffed sea turtles, deer, and other animals at a Chinese medicine clinic in Dalian. Pangolins are endangered species but continue to be poached since their scales and organs fetch high prices as traditional Chinese medicine ingredients.
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Tiger farms, like this one in Harbin, are popular tourist destinations in China. Though tigers typically do not suffer horrendous farming conditions like bears, it’s reported that after a tiger dies on such a farm, its body is frozen. Conservationists believe tiger farmers are stockpiling the bodies in the hope that selling tiger organs and bones will soon become legal again in China.
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At the Hanoi international airport in Vietnam, a pangolin poster warns travelers about the serious consequences of poaching. Despite these measures, animals are regularly smuggled across the Vietnamese border to China and beyond.
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Much of the current animal stock for traditional Chinese medicine is sourced from forests in Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, conservationists fear that the “empty forest” syndrome will soon become a reality - that is, forests will be full of trees, but lack any animals.
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A traditional Chinese medicine clinic in rural Vietnam. This clinic is located near a national park, and the animal ingredients it sells are almost certainly sourced from the park’s forests.
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Pickled snakes for sale at a traditional Chinese medicine clinic in rural southern Vietnam.