ASIA: Debate over traditional medicine

Updated November 22, 2007 20:14:43

Traditional medicine is very much part of the medical repertoire in Asia. Now a group of Asian medical scholars are beginning to use traditional medicine as well as therapies like yoga and accupuncture, to treat conditions specific to women. But they say any significant discoveries may take years to benefit women in the West.

Presenter: Xiaoning Mo
Speakers: Professor Paul But, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Dr Rajen M, organising chairman of the Women's Health and Asian Traditional Medicine Conference