How China uses gut microbes to treat a range of diseases

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...