Toads secretions to help children to digest ... Lizard tail to cure asthma, but also impotence ... Mutant caterpillars planted as banderillas inside of a wild duck to the fight against fatigue and heavy legs ... But also drinking green tea from morning to night for its fluor, zinc, iron and other oligo-elements that are good for cancer and cholesterol. These are a few recipes taken from the traditional Chinese pharmacy. In Europe, we use Chinese plants as adjuvant for certain heavy treatments such as chemotherapy, so as to reduce its after effects. But in China, everything is taken care of with plants. Traditional doctors have an astonishingly simple method to establish their diagnosis: they take your pulses. There are 6 main ones to be measured and 30 usual adjectives apply to qualify them. Have these doctors maintained wisdom and a knowledge that we have long lost ? Can their philosophy and therapy be transmitted to us, tired as we are of our technological fragmented medicine ?
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