ISLAMABAD – A leading Chinese health expert has shown keen interest to setup a hospital of traditional medicines in Pakistan for treatment ofpatients suffering from cancer, diabetes and other diseases and arrangelectures to create awareness among people about the Chinese way oftreatment.
“We want to open a branch of our hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicines(TCM) in Islamabad and at present, we are looking at differentpossibilities for this purpose,” Chairperson of Beijing Guo Yi HuiHospital, Helen Zhang said here on Sunday.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a treasure of Chinese civilization whileits efficacy in clinical application and healthcare is remarkable, she toldAPP in an exclusive interview.
She stressed that being a comprehensive way of treatment; traditionalChinese medicine could be developed and promoted in the whole worldincluding Pakistan.
Expressing her confidence to start a new culture of traditional medicinesin Pakistan, she said that different kinds of herbs were available inabundance in Pakistan, adding, “We can use these local herbs for treatmentof patients.”
Helen Zhang, who also arranges lectures and training classes at herhospital, informed that traditional Chinese medicine way of treatment had ahistory of 5,000 years as it protected the health of Chinese people fromgeneration to generation.
“Chinese medicine is all-embracing, integrating natural view, humanisticview, worldview, religion, and philosophy. It is a special theoreticalsystem to show how greatest it is rather than medical science,” she added.
Referring to the friendly history between China and Pakistan and thesupport extended by Pakistan to China during its hard times, she said, as ahealth expert, it was her responsibility to let every Pakistani experiencethe charm of traditional Chinese medicines.
About promotion of traditional Chinese medicine in Pakistan, she said manyinternational students came to China for learning this method and broughtthose skills back to their country.
“We will arrange lectures to create awareness among Pakistanis living inChina enabling them to take this knowledge and skills back to Pakistan,”she added.
On the future of traditional Chinese medicines, she believed it wouldspread gradually because it was a kind of natural healing and there was noside effect to the human body and as a result, it was easier for the peopleto accept this way of treatment.
Responding to a question about the role of Western medicine, she said itplayed an important role in modern China. Its application in surgery,anti-infective drugs, and control in contagion was in a dominant position.
She opined that traditional and modern medicine needed to stand on a commonground while reserving difference and draw upon one another’s strong pointsin order to protect the health of human being.
To a question, she explained traditional Chinese medicines were moreeffective for the first-stage cancer patients and added it was also usefulfor some patients who were recovering after surgeries.
“We can cure cancer without hurting healthy hormones and we cansuccessfully control cancer cells. Traditional medicine is also the bestway to treat diabetics as we target the reasons of this disease,” sheconcluded. – APP