Health
How China uses gut microbes to treat a range of diseases
Key Points
Modern medicine has spent the past few decades rediscovering the connection between a healthy gut and a healthy mind and body, something traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have understood for many hundreds of years. In China and around the world, doctors and scientists trained in Western medicine have learned the importance of maintaining a balance between “good” and “bad” bacteria in the human microbiome – the scientific name for the collection of microorganisms in the gut –...
Modern medicine has spent the past few decades rediscovering the connection between a healthy gut and a healthy mind and body, something traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have understood for many hundreds of years.
In China and around the world, doctors and scientists trained in Western medicine have learned the importance of maintaining a balance between “good” and “bad” bacteria in the human microbiome – the scientific name for the collection of microorganisms in the gut – and...
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How China uses
gut
microbes to treat a
range of diseases
By Shi Huang
Senior Reporter, Beijing
Holly Chik
Senior Reporter, Hong Kong
October 30,2026
Modern medicine has spent the past few decades rediscovering the connection
between a healthy gut and a healthy mind and body,something traditional Chinese
medicine (TCM) practitioners have understood for many hundreds of years
In China and around the world, doctors and scientists trained in Western medicine
have learned the importance of maintaining a balance between"good' and"bad"