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We don't want tiger parts
To the Editor:
As President of Council of Colleges of
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, representing fifty colleges of
acupuncture and Oriental medicine in the United States, I take exception
to Barun Mitra’s “Sell the Tiger to Save It” (August
15). He erroneously connects the “growing popularity of
traditional Chinese medicines” with his argument for farming
tigers. In fact, traditional Chinese medicine doctors have completely
stopped using tiger parts, and found other substitutes for clinics,
hospitals and patients. It is in the best interest of traditional
Chinese medicine to stop the trade of tiger parts to protect tigers in
wild. AOM education community strongly supports healthy people and
healthy planet.
Health care delivery in the US has
undergone immense change in the past quarter century. Among the primary
reasons for this are changing demographics, legislations, increased
health care costs, changes in the health insurance industry, basic and
applied research, and perhaps most importantly, consumer demand.
Americans learn more about mounting evidence that traditional Chinese
medicine can be effective for many conditions, including pain,
women’s health care, senior’s health care, cancer, etc. This
evidence has generated action and interaction among healthcare providers
in multiple disciplines and traditions. Research projects on traditional
Chinese medicine are conducted at medical schools of Harvard University,
Stanford University, John Hopkin’s University, University of
California at San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, etc
Traditional Chinese medicine promotes
harmony and balance between people and the wildlife. We should leave the
people today and the children, in the future, a living
planet.
Lixin Huang, MS
President of Council of Colleges of
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
President of American College of
Traditional Chinese Medicine
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