TCM can be part of a country’s toolkit against rising heat: NUS study

 

 

For decades, Singapore’s Chinese community has turned to acupuncture treatments, barley water and herbal remedies not only to boost healing and wellness, but also to cope with the hot weather.

These traditional approaches should not be overlooked as Singapore builds a suite of solutions to strengthen resilience against rising temperatures, said heat experts and historians from the National University of Singapore.

This was the conclusion of the team from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine), who traced how people have navigated daily heat and humidity since the early 20th century using Western remedies and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

  

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