Report from the Second International Conference of Traditional and Complementary Medicine on Health 2015

10.1016/j.jtcme.2016.01.001

Ciro Isidoro；Chia-Chi Huang；Lee-Yan Sheen

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

6卷1期（2016 / 01 / 01）

5 - 9

英文

The Second International Conference of Traditional and Complementary Medicine on Health was held from October 24th through 27th at the GIS National Taiwan University Convention Center in Taipei. Twenty-seven invited speakers, representative of fourteen Countries, delivered their lecture in front of an audience of more than two hundreds of attendees. In addition, a poster exhibition with seventy-two presenters completed the scientific sessions. The leitmotif of the Conference was to promote a common platform in which all medical knowledge is integrated to improve the health care system. Traditional medicine and complementary medicine are characterized by a holistic approach to prevent and cure diseases, making use of natural products and/or physical manipulations. In this context, the Conference emphasized the importance of the Quality Control and of standardized methods for the authentication, preparation and characterization of the herbal products and nutrient supplements, as well as the need for controlled clinical trials and for experimental studies to demonstrate the efficacy and to understand the underlying mechanisms of the preventive and curative treatments. In this report, we highlight the novel findings and the perspectives in Traditional and Complementary Medicine (TCM; 傳統暨互補醫學chuán tǒng jì hù bǔ yī xué) that emerged during the conference.

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20. Yu, B-C,Yu, W-J,Huang, C-Y(2012).Toona sinensis leaf aqueous extract improves the functions of sperm and testes via regulating testicular proteins in rats under oxidative stress.Evid Based Complement Altern Med.,2012,681328-681338.

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