{"id":29958,"date":"2019-01-21T01:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29958"},"modified":"2019-01-21T01:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T01:23:41","slug":"traditional-medicine-in-taiwan-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29958","title":{"rendered":"Traditional medicine in Taiwan on life support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67.0642201835\">\n<p>People in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/taiwan.html\">Taiwan<\/a> who are not feeling so well have, for generations, avoided going to a doctor and visited a traditional Chinese medicine shop instead.<\/p>\n<p>But thousands of shops have shut down in the past 20 years &#8211; an estimated 200 stores a year.<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwanese government has not issued any new operating licences in those 20 years and store owners fear when they die, so will their industry.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Katia Lopez Hodoyan explains why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Taiwan who are not feeling so well have, for generations, avoided going to a doctor and visited a traditional Chinese medicine shop instead. But thousands of shops have shut down in the past 20 years &#8211; an estimated 200 stores a year. The Taiwanese government has not issued any new operating licences in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}