Amazing Interiors of the Hu Qing Yu Tang 胡庆余堂
One of the more interesting places here in Hangzhou’s Old Street is something I just stumbled into. The Hu Qing Yu Tang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine features prominently in this area. You can immediately tell since there are a lot of people visiting the place and it is not because there are a lot of tourists. The Hu Qing Yu Tang is a living and breathing Chinese Medicine dispensary. You can go here can consult with their Chinese physicians and naturally get traditional Chinese medicine.
Hallway To the Hu Qing Yu Tang 胡庆余堂
This is not just a clinic, it is also a wonder to go inside the structure and marvel at the architecture inside. The walls are stocked with numerous and unknown Chinese medicine. I am quite familiar with some Chinese medicine as these were force fed to me by my parents when I was young. It seems the more bitter it is, the better it is for you. One thing practicioners claim is that Chinese medicine has far less side effects that Western medicine, after all they have a couple of millennia worth of history going for them. To someone unfamiliar with the doctrines of Chinese medicine it might even border on the edge of voodoo. Some scientific research has been done but it will be a long way before traditional Chinese medicine will be mainstream.
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