APOTHECARY OR DRUG STOREA MODERN CHINESE CHOICE

GENERAL MEETING SIGMA THEA TAU FEBRUARY 2015

Merry Kelly Rehm MS. Rn.

VISITING CHINA• Must have visa• Must provide detailed itinerary

• Places you will be stay • Places you are visiting

• These Must be confirmed by local business and agencies

• Best to use a Chinese visa service. • $60.00

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CITIES OF CHINA

Shang HiBeijing

BEIJING Capitol Peoples Republic of China200 schools and universities23,000,000 People

SHANG HI• @ 24,800,000 people

• Most populous city in China

HEALTH LIFESTYLE AND WHOLENESS• Lifestyle

• Walking – rural vs Urban• Nutrition• Family structures• One child rule, Partial repeal

• Socioeconomic level• Current widening of the middle class

• Government welfare• Rise of the upper class – last 30 years.

At 122 billionaires, China has the second-largest concentration of billionaires in the world, according to Forbes. Yet 13% of China's population lives on less than $1.25 a day.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/side-by-side-images-chinas-wealth-gap-2013-9?op=1#ixzz3RI4vw3Oy

HEALTH IN CHINA

•Homogeneity of the population•Lifestyle•Prevention

•Activity•Nutrition

•Drinking Tea •Consumption•33/155 per capita 29oz per year

AIR QUALITY

2005 2014

CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY•Western Tradition: Alchemy, identify single cause and effect, to understand what is going on. Process orientation

•Eastern Tradition : Lifestyle creation, A change occurs to the body. Outcome orientation

CONTINUATION OF HERBAL

TRADITION

6th century Vienna Dioscurides, an illuminated version of the 1st century De Materia Medica

CINNAMONEastern Approach

PHARMAKON, "POISON" IN CLASSIC GREEK;

• Pharmacology abandoned whole plant extracts in favor of isolated active ingredients.

• The amount of active ingredient in a plant can vary with factors like the variety, the geographic location, the weather, the season, the time of harvest, soil conditions, storage conditions, and the method of preparation.

WESTERN APPROACH •Cinnamon Improves Glucose and Lipids of People With Type 2 Diabetes

• https://nccih.nih.gov/health/cinnamon

PRESCRIPTIONSSoup/tea Decoction

Formulas

LIANDOUQINGMAI

J Tradit Chin Med. 2014 Oct;34(5):539-43.Effect of Liandouqingmai recipe on quality of life and inflammatory reactions of patients with coronary heart disease.Zhu H, Lu S, Su W, Gong S, Zhang Z, Li P.

WESTERN AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE LIVE SIDE BY SIDE

WESTERN STYLE PHARMACY

TIGER BALM

The active ingredients are camphor, menthol, cajuput oil, mint oil and clove oil. Tiger Balm Red also contains cassia oil.

LOQUAT EXTRACT •fritillary bulb (Fritillariae cirrhosae), loquat leaf (Eriobotrya japonica), ladybell root (Adenophora stricta, , Indian bread (Wolfiporia extensa), pomelo peel (Citrus maxima), chinese bellflower root (Platycodon grandiflorum), pinellia rhizome (Pinellia ternata), Schisandra seed (Schisandra chinensis), Trichosanthes seed (Trichosanthes cucumerina), coltsfoot flower (Tussilago farfara), thinleaf milkwort root (Polygala tenuifolia), bitter apricot kernel (Prunus armeniaca), fresh ginger (Zingiber officinale), licorice root (Glycyrrhiza uralensis),and menthol in a syrup and honey base.

BOUTIQUE HERBAL APOTHECARY DISPENSARY

GINSENGPANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS

NCCAM (Nation Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) supports studies to better understand the use of Asian ginseng. Areas of recent NCCAM-funded research include the herb’s potential role

May lower blood glucose, possible beneficial effects on immune function, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease.

http://nccam.nih.gov/sites/nccam.nih.gov/files/NIH_NCCAM_WebsiteHeader.png

OPHIOCORDYCEPS SINENSIS• Parasite that grows on the larvae of the ghost moth

• Known in the West as a medicinal mushroom

• In Chinese medicine C. sinensis is considered sweet and warm

• Cultivation in the apothecary

The traditional Chinese medicine Cordyceps sinensis and its effects on apoptotic homeostasis. E.J. Buenza, b, B.A. Bauera, T.W. Osmundsonc, d, T.J. Motleyd Journal of Ethnopharmacology Volume 96, Issues 1–2, 4 January 2005, Pages 19–29

•Apoptosis induced by the Tibetan herbal remedy PADMA 28 in the T cell-derived lymphocytic leukaemia cell line CEM-C7H2.

• Marcel Jenny,1 Wolfgang Schwaiger,1 David Bernhard,2 Oliver A Wrulich,1 Daria Cosaceanu,3 Dietmar Fuchs,4 and Florian Ueberallcorresponding author1. J Carcinog. 2005; 4: 15.

INGREDIENTS:

ROOIBOS, CHICORY ROOT, NATURAL FLAVOR, ROSEHIP, CINNAMON, LEMONGRASS, PEPPERMINT, CHAMOMILE, GINGER ROOT, ANISE SEED, ORANGE OIL, ORANGE PEEL.

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