Originally published July 31 2005
Free herbal therapy offered to 50 AIDS patients in Chinese Shaanxi province
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
According to Xinhua, Shaanxi province has a total of 357 AIDS infections, and the province has decided to offer of those patients a free herbal therapy involving the use of traditional Chinese healing methods.
Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has decided to offer free herbal therapy to 50 AIDS patients and HIV carriers in the province in the coming 12 months.
A document issued by the provincial health department last week said the move will be part of the province's efforts to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS with traditional Chinese medicine.
The free treatment, which is expected to start by the end of July, will hopefully ease pains and enhance immunity for AIDS patients and provide early intervention to postpone as much as possible the development of HIV into AIDS, said Yuan Ruihua, deputy director of the provincial administration of traditional Chinese medicine.
"In the coming days we'll obtain a clear picture of how the AIDS patients and HIV-carriers are distributed in the province andsolicit volunteers who are willing to get the therapy," Yuan told Xinhua in an interview.
He said the budget for the 12-month treatment is 250,000 yuan (30,000 US dollars), which is to cover the herbal therapy and immunity tests for all the 50 volunteers and training of doctors and nurses who are to provide the therapy.
The provincial health department said Shaanxi Province reported 75 new HIV/AIDS infections in the first six months of this year, bringing the province's total number of infections to 357.
Ministry of Health figures say there are 840,000 HIV carriers on the Chinese mainland, of whom 80,000 are suffering from AIDS.
Anti-AIDS herbal medicine has been popular in many Chinese provinces and Chinese doctors have been trying to alleviate the pains of HIV/AIDS sufferers in many other developing countries with traditional Chinese medicine for nearly 20 years.
A herbal anti-AIDS remedy jointly developed by Chinese and Thaiscientists has been proved effective in 89 percent of clinical trials in Thailand, according to Thai media reports.
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