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Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3,000 government and
corporate representatives from 43 countries listened as a team of
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Chinese acupuncture therapy and traditional medicine have been
proved clinically effective in healing drug abuse, according to
sources with an international conference on traditional Chinese
medicine here on Monday.
The Second International Technology Conference on the Modernization
of Traditional Chinese Medicine was opened on Sunday in Chengdu,
capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, attracting 3,000
government and corporate representatives from 43 countries and
regions worldwide.
Han Jisheng, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
said at the conference that his team has carried out acupuncture
therapy on drug abused people by stimulating the patients' neural
system, which could help them relieve pains during the
rehabilitation period.
Meanwhile, Xu Guozhu, deputy director of the Chinese Research
Institute on Drug Dependence, said that China has self-developed 10
varieties of anti-drug rehabilitation medicine by using traditional
medicine as raw materials, which included the medicine for alcohol
abuse.
Xu said that although the medication effect by using traditional
Chinese medicine is slower than that of western medicine, the
natural herbs would produce less vile effects than chemical drugs in
treatment.

Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-
09/27/content_3548473.htm