Officials suspend bean recipe clinic
By Chen Xingjie and Li Xinran |
May 31, 2010, Monday
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A "DOCTOR" known for recipes which claimed to cure cancer has canceled his outpatient service and is on leave after he and his clinic were found to have no license for medical or health care services.
Authorities suspended the clinic that Zhang Wuben ran in Beijing's downtown Dongzhimen on Saturday, yesterday's Beijing News reported.
Meanwhile, a health care talk show on Hunan Television that Zhang presented several times is to be taken off the screen, according to the Jinan-based Qilu Evening News.
Zhang, 47, who never went to medical school, was previously a laid-off textile worker, according to the Beijing-based newspaper. However, he began selling health care products and teaching traditional Chinese medicine in 2000.
He expanded his lectures to communities in Beijing from 2007 as a "TCM expert."
Three years later, his "Eat out the Diseases You Have Eaten" - a book of recipes mainly based on mung beans, eggplant and white radish - had sold more than 3 million copies.
He went on TV to promote his theories and sold his prescriptions at 2,000 yuan (US$293) each at the clinic.
Zhang claimed to be the fourth generation of a family of TCM doctors. He said his father was a senior TCM doctor who had served state leaders. But his father, a retired textile worker, said this wasn't true.
Last week the health bureau and industrial and business administration of Beijing's Chaoyang District carried out checks on the clinic, called Wubentang.
The watchdog found it had only applied for food distribution and Zhang was not among the owners.
No medicines were found, just food such as green beans, cabbages and eggplants.
Though the clinic had business licenses, it had no permit for clinical medical activities and none of its staff had a doctor's license, officials said.
They said further investigation was needed before determining whether the health consultations were illegal.
Zhang's popularity has been blamed for the rising price of beans, now costing around 20 yuan per kilogram compared to 8 yuan last year.
Authorities suspended the clinic that Zhang Wuben ran in Beijing's downtown Dongzhimen on Saturday, yesterday's Beijing News reported.
Meanwhile, a health care talk show on Hunan Television that Zhang presented several times is to be taken off the screen, according to the Jinan-based Qilu Evening News.
Zhang, 47, who never went to medical school, was previously a laid-off textile worker, according to the Beijing-based newspaper. However, he began selling health care products and teaching traditional Chinese medicine in 2000.
He expanded his lectures to communities in Beijing from 2007 as a "TCM expert."
Three years later, his "Eat out the Diseases You Have Eaten" - a book of recipes mainly based on mung beans, eggplant and white radish - had sold more than 3 million copies.
He went on TV to promote his theories and sold his prescriptions at 2,000 yuan (US$293) each at the clinic.
Zhang claimed to be the fourth generation of a family of TCM doctors. He said his father was a senior TCM doctor who had served state leaders. But his father, a retired textile worker, said this wasn't true.
Last week the health bureau and industrial and business administration of Beijing's Chaoyang District carried out checks on the clinic, called Wubentang.
The watchdog found it had only applied for food distribution and Zhang was not among the owners.
No medicines were found, just food such as green beans, cabbages and eggplants.
Though the clinic had business licenses, it had no permit for clinical medical activities and none of its staff had a doctor's license, officials said.
They said further investigation was needed before determining whether the health consultations were illegal.
Zhang's popularity has been blamed for the rising price of beans, now costing around 20 yuan per kilogram compared to 8 yuan last year.
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