China Wants Traditional Medicine to Quell Its Pneumonia Wave

Children and their parents wait at an outpatient area at a children hospital in Beijing on Nov. 23.Photographer: JADE GAO/AFP

Hi there, it’s Phoebe in Hong Kong. The city is looking on nervously at the wave of respiratory illnesses sweeping across mainland China and making kids sick. But before we get to that...

For thousands of years, Chinese people have sought out bitter herbal concoctions to help them get over a variety of illnesses.