What's past is prologue: Chinese medicine and the treatment of recurrent urinary tract infections

摘要

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) has a recorded history of over 2000 years that may be used to authenticate and guide modern treatments for disease, and also identify neglected but potentially useful treatment strategies. However this process is often based on over-simplistic conceptions of tradition and history that fail to take into account the dynamic nature of 'traditions' and underestimate the importance of contextual factors in their interpretation.