FACES co-sponsored Asia Society Event

Healing With Out Harm: Traditional Chinese Medicine and Endangered Species in Asia

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:45 pm Program
Fromm Hall University of San Francisco Parker St. (between Golden Gate & Fulton)
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Reservations recommended. Please call (415) 422-6828

Co-presented by USF Center for the Pacific Rim and cosponsored by the Chinese Historical Society of America, Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford (FACES), the Institute for Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University and Volunteers in Asia

Description: For over 3000 years, traditional Chinese medicine has brought health and healing to millions of people throughout Asia. Today, TCM is enjoying a surge of popularity in the US also as people seek answers to health questions that elude western practitioners. While the increasing worldwide respect for and use of TCM is laudable, there is also a tragic consequence: the decimation of a wide ranging and growing number of animal species whose parts are used in traditional medicine. In fact, seven of the world’s eight species of bear have seen their numbers reduced as a result of the demand for their body parts. Yet for the highly endangered Asiatic Black Bear, whose story is perhaps the most tragic, there is a ray of hope in the form of a unique partnership between the Chinese Government and Animals Asia Foundation, a Hong Kong based charity.
Please Join Jill Robinson and Lixin Huang for a fascinating look at the use of endangered species products in traditional medicine. Robinson and Huang have formed a unique partnership aimed at providing TCM practitioners and users world-wide with information regarding alternatives to endangered species ingredients in traditional medicine.

Download the flyer (PDF) for more details. FACES members are offered the members’ rate of $5.