November 30, 2000 – A section devoted to contemporary Chinese pharmacopoeia has just been opened on PasseportSanté.net. These Chinese pharmacopoeia formulas are above all presented to introduce visitors to the possibilities and contemporary applications of the Chinese pharmacopoeia. However, any herbalist familiar with Chinese herbal medicine could use them to treat the problems for which they were developed: menopause, hypertension, prostatic hyperplasia, hyperlipidemia, etc.
A first group of five formulas is available as of today and around twenty more will be put online in the coming weeks. The Chinese pharmacopoeia section will be accessible, for the moment, from section 1001 solutions.
This project is made possible thanks to the exceptional collaboration of Mr. Philippe Sionneau, one of the most renowned and active teachers in the field of Chinese medicine. Author of 19 books translated into French, English and Spanish, Mr. Sionneau leads training courses in acupuncture, dietetics, pharmacopoeia and internal medicine in Europe, Quebec and the United States.
PasseportSanté.net is the first French-speaking site to provide access, on the Internet, to detailed information on the formulas of the Chinese pharmacopoeia. This tradition several thousand years old is beginning to meet, at this very moment, modern scientific research and all those who know the immense wealth that it conceals foresees that the medicine of the XXIst century will grant it a place of importance.
The Sixth Academic Congress of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Association of Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN), which took place in Bangkok (Thailand) last September, paid particular attention to the rapid development of medicine. traditional Chinese (TCM) throughout the region. More than 700 attendees, from all ten ASEAN member countries, unanimously recognized that the reputation of traditional Chinese medicine is growing rapidly and that the international medical market translates this into continued investment in TCM research, factories and hospitals. Already Malaysia and Thailand have decided to include TCM in their national health systems. The participants of the congress underlined that it is now necessary for TCM to meet modern scientific criteria and standards required by international markets.
HealthPassport.net
With a dispatch from the Xinhua Agency, September 19, 2000
