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The Asian Americans Reclaiming Traditional Medicine in the Bay

The Asian Americans Reclaiming Traditional Medicine in the Bay

The Bay

February 12, 202116m 21s

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Show Notes

Traditional Chinese Medicine has a complicated history in the Bay. In the 70s, a Chinese immigrant in Palo Alto named Miriam Lee was arrested and put on trial for practicing acupuncture — even though she learned it from a master in her hometown in China.

Today, Traditional Chinese Medicine is still often exoticized or dismissed. But now, some Asian Americans in the Bay Area are reconnecting with these practices — and building new communities in the process.

Guest: Cathy Erway, food writer and host of the podcast Self Evident: Asian America's Stories

Read Cathy's piece about this in the San Francisco Chronicle here. Episode transcript here: http://bit.ly/3tQXSxD

We're taking a break on Monday, Feb. 15th. Talk to you on Wednesday!

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