{"id":4790,"date":"2026-01-19T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:00:48","slug":"tcm-can-be-part-of-a-countrys-toolkit-against-rising-heat-nus-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/tcm-can-be-part-of-a-countrys-toolkit-against-rising-heat-nus-study\/","title":{"rendered":"TCM can be part of a country\u2019s toolkit against rising heat: NUS study"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4790\" class=\"elementor elementor-4790\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6838d09e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6838d09e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ab14dc1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ab14dc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"font-display-xxl-semibold text-primary\" data-testid=\"heading-test-id\">TCM can be part of a country\u2019s toolkit against rising heat: NUS study<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For decades, Singapore\u2019s Chinese community<b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">This was the conclusion of the team\u00a0from 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\u00a0using Western remedies and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/environment\/tcm-can-be-part-of-a-countrys-toolkit-against-rising-heat-nus-study?ref=top-stories\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Singapore\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9460,"featured_media":4791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TCM can be part of a country\u2019s toolkit against rising heat: NUS study - HRPC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/tcm-can-be-part-of-a-countrys-toolkit-against-rising-heat-nus-study\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TCM can be part of a country\u2019s toolkit against rising heat: NUS study - HRPC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For decades, Singapore\u2019s 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. 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