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Editorial
Nature 448, 105-106 (12 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448106a; Published online 11 July 2007
Hard to swallow
Researchers, practitioners and drug companies around the world are engaged in a complex, tentative dance over the best way to tap into the unknown potential of traditional Chinese medicine. The scientific community and the drug industry both tend to be sniffy about 'traditional' cures; yet there is a strong sense that millennia of practice in China — much of it barely documented — is likely to have yielded at least some treatments that work.
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