- Valley of Youth

While traditional Chinese medicine is thousands of years old, its research continues into the future and new discoveries are constantly emerging. For example...

Hidden in a distant corner of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in southeast China, lies the "miracle" village of Laochang.

This is the heart of China's herb country, populated by ethnic tribes famous for their healing wisdom. But even in this herb-conscious area, the isolated town of Laochang is becoming famous. 

Wedged into a deep valley 6,000 feet above sea-level, surrounded by forests of bamboo, the people in this village are disease-free and never seem to get sick... routinely live past 100... have perfect, unwrinkled skin... and are sexually active until they die. 

Incredible! Word is now spreading throughout China, and people are coming from far away to cure their ailments. Even people with cancers are showing up, and some of them are claiming to being cured. 

What's going on? The herbs are certainly like nothing found anywhere else in China, and a black market is developing for these rare Laochang-grown herbs.