If you want to fight fat the TCM way, you should eat foods to promote a healthy spleen — like Chinese pearl barley, known as Job's tears — and drink lots of Pu'er tea. Both are also diuretics. A sun ...

Advances in the transplant of cells into the spleen could transform one of the body’s “expendable” organs into a hub for treating diabetes, two Chinese studies have found. Research published last ...

Red yeast rice is made by fermenting the fungus Monascus purpureus over red rice. The substance is then used in traditional Chinese medicine to improve blood circulation and spleen function. In 1998, ...