Chinese Medicine and the Healing Power of Plants

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2006

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Unlocking Natures medicine chest are doctors orders this week as Monique Simmonds reveals the research behind old herbal remedies, Tai-Ping Fan describes how Chinese medicine is being used for illnesses from gout to endometriosis, Jack Cuzick talks about clinical trials for a new drug for breast cancer, and Dr Chris is in St. Louis with details on a potato that fights back... In Kitchen Science, Derek unleashes the explosive power of flour, and Anna Lacey asks Peter Austin why thousands of languages are threatened with extinction. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Live from the BBC the naked scientists.
0:07.0	You are listening to the naked scientists and it's me. I'm in charge ha Ha ha! We've put Chris in a basement somewhere.
0:14.0	That's a lie.
0:15.0	You'll be hearing from Chris later.
0:17.0	It's me, Dr. Kat, and we're here with Dr. Sarah.
0:20.0	Hello.
0:21.0	And with the wonderful Mandy Morton
0:22.0	who's keeping all the filters open and the buttons
0:24.4	press.
0:25.4	Doing our best.
0:26.4	Doing our absolute best.
0:27.4	Chris is way in America at the AAA science conference and we'll be hearing from
0:31.1	him later about what he's found out this week and
0:33.2	we're going to be back in the studio here talking about nature's medicine chest
0:38.4	how can plants cure of all our nasty aches and pains so for thousands and thousands of years we've been using
0:44.7	Chinese medicine over in China and the West has sort of shunned this in favour of conventional
0:49.7	medicine. But we're going to be talking to Monique Simmons, who's from Kew Gardens and she's going to be talking about researching plants to make drugs.
0:59.0	So I'll be really interested here about that later.
1:02.0	She's also running a program to find out
1:04.2	about people's recollections of herbal remedies. So maybe you could phone in with yours later.
1:10.6	And also we're joined by Typiping Fan. So hi Taiping.
1:13.4	Hi good evening. And he's from Cambridge University and is an expert on traditional
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