Foreign TCM interest growing
“Hello! May a friend and I join your student herbal association?” asked Nagarjuna Mudiala, an Indian student with Zhenjiang-based Jiangsu University, when he phoned the pharmacy school’s association recently to ask about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
The association, Baicaoshe (Chinese Herbal Association) was established by the dean of the School of Pharmacy, Zhao Ming and a teacher, Yang Tongtong in 2009. It was formed to give students practical experience from the knowledge they learned in textbooks and to promote TCM.
High on herb gathering
Mudiala and his friend Mohammed Imran Khan, also an Indian student, have studied Western medicine for five years at the university. They both are keenly interested in TCM and became active Baicaoshe members this year.
“It’s a lot fun to collect herbs in the mountains,” said Khan, who picked and studied herbs with his fellow TCM enthusiasts in Zhenjiang Nanshan National Forest Garden in October.
He said they explored bamboo groves, digging herbs with hoes or simply examining them and learning more.
“Looking at herbs which I thought were common, I discovered that they are very useful in various Chinese medicines,” said Khan.
He said there were many Chinese traditional herbs in the area, such as tuber fleece flower root and bracken, which are valued in TCM.
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