Injecting new methods: An employee weighing ingredients at a traditional medicine pharmacy in Beijing. The Chinese medicine sector has modernised along with the rest of the country, with some local manufacturers turning age-old recipes into fast-acting injectable drugs. Below: Glass rials of injectable traditional medicine as seen at a pharmacy in Beijing. — Bloomberg
China is pushing for an overhaul of injectables based on traditional medicine, seeking to weed out unsafe products.
ON a winter morning in January 2012, farmer Wu Xiaoliang stopped by his local doctor to remedy a headache. At a small clinic near his village he received two injections made from traditional herbs.
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