Traditional Chinese medicine doctors in hot water over ‘longevity drink’ to help people live to 120
- Photo circulating on social media shows village practitioners at a seminar on the herbal preparation, but organiser says it hasn’t been sold or advertised
- Health authorities in southern China are looking into the case, according to local a newspaper
Health authorities in Binyang county, in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, said they would look into the case, Nanguo Morning Post reported on Monday.
It came to light after a photo of the doctors preparing a concoction in front of a banner for the “longevity drink” was widely circulated on Chinese social media over the weekend.
The doctors, all wearing white coats, are seen standing around two large pots as a woman ladles the preparation from one of them.
A red and yellow banner behind them reads, “Village doctors in Binyang, Guangxi present the longevity drink. It’s not a myth for humans to live to 120 years old.”
The practitioners were attending a seminar in the county on Friday to study the effects of a herbal preparation made from a “special formula”, one of the organisers, surnamed Zhong, told the newspaper.