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Article: Traditional Chinese Medicine Popular in Hong Kong
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 13, 1995
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A senior health official said today that traditional Chinese
medicine is extremely popular in Hong Kong, with a large proportion
of the population using Chinese medicinal materials in their diets or
as health tonics from time to time.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Regional Workshop on
Traditional Medicine, Secretary for Health and Welfare Katherine Fok
said that though the mainstay of health care remained to be western
medicine in Hong Kong, traditional Chinese medicine served as an
important and common means of health maintenance for the public.
She said that the government's approach in recognizing and
regulating traditional Chinese medicine has received wide and
enthusiastic ...