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International boom: Yiling Pharmaceutical sees overseas revenue soar amid COVID-19 interest in Lianhua Qingwen botanical

21-Apr-2021 By Tingmin Koe

Yiling Pharmaceutical, the company behind TCM/dietary supplement product Lianhua Qingwen, said revenue from its overseas market was up 918.37 per cent in FY2020, after the product was officially recognised by the China authorities as a COVID-19 standard...

NUTRACHAMPION PODCAST EPISODE 15

LISTEN: Complementary medicine and chronic disease management is “where the research opportunities lie” – Prof Alan Bensoussan

05-Feb-2021 By Tingmin Koe

New regulations in Australia is making research on the role of complementary medicine, including Chinese medicine, to manage chronic diseases more attractive, according to a prominent researcher who stars in the 15th episode of our NutraChampion podcast.

Malaysia firm launches health tea modelled on COVID-19 TCM formula, but no health claims

04-Jan-2021 By Tingmin Koe

Malaysia headquartered Ritamix Global has launched a tea modelled on a TCM formula used in China for COVID-19 treatment – but the new product is registered as food and beverage and makes no health claims.

Pharmacy driven: McPherson’s paving new retail focus for soon-to-be acquired Blackmores’ TCM business

11-Nov-2020 By Tingmin Koe

McPherson’s will be focusing on the pharmacy distribution network for the TCM and oriental botanical brands that it will be acquiring from Blackmores.

COVID-19 changes preferences? China consumers less interested in overseas supplement brands, while trust in TCM rises

04-Nov-2020 By Tingmin Koe

China consumers are placing more trust in traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), with a declining interest in overseas supplement brands and functional foods with health claims, said a consumer survey funded by the High-Value Nutrition National Science...

Not a good fit: Blackmores CEO explains sales of TCM, oriental botanicals supplement arm

28-Oct-2020 By Tingmin Koe

Blackmores CEO Alastair Symington has told us the firm decided to sell its traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and oriental botanical supplement arm Global Therapeutics amid a decline in the segments’ main retail channel – health food stores.

‘A combo of Nespresso, inkjet printing and vitamins’: Aussie start-up’s electroacupunture approach to personalised nutrition

16-Jul-2020 By Guan Yu Lim

An Australian-based start-up MyVi has developed a system to create customised beverages according to the real-time needs of an individual’s vitamin requirements through the use of electroacupuncture.

‘Re-evaluate or reconsider traditional indications’: Australian regulator investigates products based on TCM, Ayurveda

13-Jul-2020 By Tingmin Koe

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) will conduct compliance checks on listed medicines that are based on TCM, Ayurveda or other traditional paradigms, with firms urged to re-evaluate their products.

COVID-19: TCM Lianhua Qingwen speeds up recovery but no effect in preventing conversion to severe cases – two-week RCT

01-Jun-2020 By Tingmin Koe

A two-week clinical trial led by renowned Chinese pulmonologist Zhong Nanshan has shown that consuming the botanical TCM product Lianhua Qingwen (LH) capsules and undergoing the standard therapy can speed up recovery in COVID-19 patients.

Taking Kampo global: Researchers call for continued research into Japanese herbal medicine and frailty

26-May-2020 By Guan Yu Lim

Researchers from East Asia are urging more research and clinical studies of the Japanese herbal medicine, Kampo, as a treatment for frailty, as part of a push to increase awareness in global markets.

Breaking barriers: Firms say more consumers outside China willing to try TCM amid COVID-19

11-May-2020 By Tingmin Koe

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater willingness to try out traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in regions outside of China, some of the sector’s major players have told us.

COVID-19 and TCM: Thailand and Laos embrace China-approved Lianhua Qingwen Capsule product

29-Apr-2020 By Tingmin Koe

Thailand and Laos are following China’s footstep in embracing a TCM formula in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s official: China adds three TCM formula to COVID-19 standard therapy

24-Apr-2020 By Tingmin Koe

The Chinese government has officially recognised three TCM formulas as part of its standard therapy for COVID-19.

Can honey, omega-3, resistant potato starch help fight COVID-19? Researchers to examine via clinical trials

20-Apr-2020 By Tingmin Koe

Researchers from Asia, the Middle East, and the West are now trialling omega-3, honey, and even potato resistant starch, on top of vitamins and zinc, as they race to find products that could contribute to the fight against COVID-19 and its symptoms.

TCM and COVID-19: China conducting trials to test efficacy and safety of traditional herbal interventions

06-Apr-2020 By Guan Yu Lim

China is conducting clinical trials to assess the effectiveness and safety of combining traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and conventional Western antiviral medicine in the treatment of patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).