Jade Universe Holistic Healing™: Links

Official PRC Sources:

• The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China: main website for the PRC government.
• China Association for Science and Technology: important information about sci-tech issues, including medicine, in the PRC.
• State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, People's Republic of China: official source for information of matters relating to traditional medicine in the PRC, including herbal medicine and other holistic treatments.
• The Ministry of Health, People's Republic of China: information on all health-related matters in mainland China.
• The People's Daily Online (English edition): news from the mainland.
• China Radio International (CRI) is the only overseas broadcaster in the People's Republic of China. CRI was founded on December 3, 1941 and is owned and operated by the state. CRI is one of the "three central media organizations in China," along with China National Radio (CNR) and China Central Television (CCTV).

Traditional Chinese Medical Schools (PRC and elsewhere):

• Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University has studied Jade Universe Holistic Healing™ extensively. They have also taught Dr. Long's system for decades, offering 30 seminars devoted to it through which some 15,000 medical students have passed. As a result of their interest, this technique is used at present by 300 hospitals throughout mainland China.
• Beijing University of Chinese Medicine: Founded in 1956, the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine is one of the earliest established traditional Chinese medical institutions for higher learning in the People’s Republic of China.
• National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM), a naturopathic school and classical Chinese medicine school located in Portland, Oregon. The oldest accredited naturopathic college in North America, founded in 1956.

Online Information Sources:

• ChiMed: the History of Chinese Medicine Webpage. Managed by an international group of scholars who study this subject, this site includes links to numerous such scholars, as well as to a wide variety of relevant resources online.
• The Institute of Traditional Medicine (ITM): Also based in Portland, Oregon, the ITM pursues research and operates several clinics. Useful information and links here, including a vast free online library.
• Acupuncture Today: For information on acupuncture and moxibustion. Also material on traditional Chinese medicine and herbal methods.
• Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Online version of an exhibition drawn from the collection of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), in the U.S. This collection holds holds approximately 2,000 volumes of Chinese medical classics.
• Brief History of Chinese Medicine: From the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan. PDF download.
• The Introduction To Glossary of Chinese Medical Terms and Acupuncture Points: Online version of The Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine, translated and compiled by Nigel Wiseman with Ken Boss.

Zhuang Medicine:

• PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature. This particular link leads to the abstract of an article about Zhuang burning-string therapy.
• People's Daily: News report from December 9, 2002, indicating that "Three pharmaceutical codices setting quality standards for the medicine of the Zhuang ethnic group were approved Sunday by experts from the State Drug Administration (SDA)" of the PRC. "These works, each covering 200 types of Zhuang medicine, offer detailed information about the medicine's origins, forms, properties, chemical components, functions and dosages, and some are illustrated. Cao Cai, an SDA medicine expert, considers the works a significant contribution to Zhuang medicine research and application because of their accuracy, completeness and practicality."
• Dr. Du Luping of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia, heads a team researching "Traditional Medicines and Medicine Markets in China." They have concentrated their attention on the Jingxi medicine market. "Established and operated in Jingxi County in the far southwestern corner of Guangxi province, this market was one of few markets of its kind in traditional Guangxi and is the only one existing to the present day."

Sources for Supplies:

• Dr. Shen's Clinic and Herbs . . .

For this website:

• This Jade Universe Holistic Healing™ website, hosted by The Nearby Café, is the only website authorized by the family and estate of Dr. Long, represented by Flying Dragon Cultural Enterprises, Limited.