Chinese medicine popular among non-Chinese
Chinese medicine is popular among increasing numbers of non-Chinese:
"More people are turning to traditional Chinese medicine to seek a cure for their ailments, and almost half of these patients at one TCM centre are non-Chinese.
Kathy O'Brien has been suffering from chronic sinus problems for more than 20 years, but less than a year ago, she started acupuncture treatments at the Raffles Chinese Medicine centre at Raffles Hospital.
Said Ms O'Brien, "I knew I had a chronic problem. I had too many colds turning into flu, then into a sinus infection, and I'd walk out of a GP's office with a set antibiotics, which I didn't want to keep dumping into my body."
After about 20 treatment sessions she is now free of sinus problems.
She still receives acupuncture treatments once a month, just to keep her body in tune; each session costs about S$40.
She says she is now more aware of her own body and physiology, and she has also changed her lifestyle, buying ginseng and altering her eating habits.
Said Ms O'Brien, "The bit that was new to me was the environment, because most of what I heard about TCM was an environment that was very different from the more clinic, hospital-oriented environment I was more used to, coming from the West."
The profile of the patients are varied; in fact, 40 percent are non-Chinese. "
"More people are turning to traditional Chinese medicine to seek a cure for their ailments, and almost half of these patients at one TCM centre are non-Chinese.
Kathy O'Brien has been suffering from chronic sinus problems for more than 20 years, but less than a year ago, she started acupuncture treatments at the Raffles Chinese Medicine centre at Raffles Hospital.
Said Ms O'Brien, "I knew I had a chronic problem. I had too many colds turning into flu, then into a sinus infection, and I'd walk out of a GP's office with a set antibiotics, which I didn't want to keep dumping into my body."
After about 20 treatment sessions she is now free of sinus problems.
She still receives acupuncture treatments once a month, just to keep her body in tune; each session costs about S$40.
She says she is now more aware of her own body and physiology, and she has also changed her lifestyle, buying ginseng and altering her eating habits.
Said Ms O'Brien, "The bit that was new to me was the environment, because most of what I heard about TCM was an environment that was very different from the more clinic, hospital-oriented environment I was more used to, coming from the West."
The profile of the patients are varied; in fact, 40 percent are non-Chinese. "
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