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· Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine set up in 1987 to regulate the practice of Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) in the UK more

· Chinese Medicine Advisory Service provides information on Chinese medicine to health care professionals. Contact Debbie Shaw on 0207 771 5157; e-mail chimas@gstt.nhs.uk

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· Safety and quality of traditional Chinese medicines questions and answers
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TCM: balancing choice and risk?
Joanne Barnes and Lida Teng (Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, School of Pharmacy, University of London), with Debbie Shaw (Chinese Medicine Advisory Service), discuss how pharmacists can help patients use traditional chinese medicines safely
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Pharmaceutical Journal, 11 September 2004, p342. Vol 273, no 7316

UK needs greater expertise in TCM
Joint meeting of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain, the Society for Medicinal Plant Research and the International Society for Ethnopharmacology
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Pharmaceutical Journal, 24 July 2004, p125. Vol 273, no 7309

Chinese herbal medicine

Calligraphy of Chinese characters, meaning “Chinese herbal medicine”

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· Traditional medicine
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Traditional Chinese herbal medicine
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Pharmaceutical Journal 2006;276:361-363

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· Greater expertise in TCM needed worldwide
· No list of ingredients or dosage

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