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eCAM Advance Access published online on January 23, 2008
eCAM, doi:10.1093/ecam/nem188
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© 2008 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

A Comparison of Chinese and American Indian (Chumash) Medicine

James D. Adams, Jr1, Cecilia Garcia2 and Eric J. Lien1

1University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, USA and 2Ensenada, Mexico

Chinese and Chumash traditional medical approaches are similar in terms of disease causation, use of acupuncture or healing touch, plants, spiritual and philosophical approaches. This article provides a brief comparison and discussion of Chinese and Chumash traditional medical practices. A table of 66 plants is presented along with Chinese and Chumash uses of each plant. These uses are compared and contrasted.

Keywords: acupuncture – healing touch – phytotherapy

For reprints and all correspondence: James David Adams, Jr., Associate Professor, University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue PSC 508, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9121, USA. E-mail: jadams{at}usc.edu

Received October 30, 2007; accepted December 17, 2007


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