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Li Zhihua, a physician practicing in rural Henan province during the Mao era, gains great fame when his inexpensive herbal remedy cures a plague of poliomyelitis. But his medical skills, cannot protect his family from the political chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Nor are they enough to treat the flood of impoverished patients at his doorstep.

Journey To The West is a contemporary exploration of the ways in which Chinese medicine - including acupuncture and herbal remedies - is being practiced today.

Traditional Chinese medicine is known as the quintessence of China and one of the important intangible cultural heritages of mankind. The documentary《Approaching the traditional Chinese Medicine》is a popular science documentary on the history of intangible cultural heritage. Starting from the source of human medicine, it expounds the whole process of the origin, development, maturity, decline and return of Chinese medicine. It reveals the inheritance and development relationship between TCM and medical sages such as Fuxi, Yan Emperor, Huang Emperor, Qi Bo, Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo, Ge Hong, Sun Simiao and Li Shizhen. It also explains the integration and development relationship between Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine, Miao medicine and other minority medicine.

Explore traditional Chinese medicine with this informative instructional program, which covers various healing techniques that Taoist practitioners have used for centuries, including acupuncture, herbs, yin-yang foods and qigong balancing. The discussion features an exploration of the history of these methods, followed by demonstrations and case studies. The program also explains how to use herbal remedies at home.

A man, who years earlier mysteriously abandoned his family and isolated himself in a small northern town, returns for one last chance to reconnect with his troubled daughter. When she goes missing, he risks everything to find her, including exposing the fact that he is becoming invisible.

That smelly, pale yellow liquid that people flush down the toilet every day is an industrial fertilizer, a diagnostic tool, a medicine, a renewable energy resource; it is an inexhaustible substance that is produced daily in huge quantities. This is the golden story of urine.