Russian journalist Boris Vinogradov has extolled the effectiveness of recipes in Vietnam’s traditional medicine to cure illnesses.

In an article of Russia’s Independent newspaper, Vinogradov described the development of Vietnam’s traditional medicine since Asia has not yet known about western medicine and now using traditional medicine in treatment has become more popular in the country.

The writer also introduced the history of Vietnam’s traditional medicine and its capital’s Hai Thuong Lan Ong street with traditional medicine shops as well as the life and cause of well-known physician Hai Thuong Lan Ong and his famous traditional medicine to cure dangerous tropical diseases.

Once foreign tourists come to Lan Ong street, they will be hardly to forget the good smell of traditional medicine from the shops, wrote Vinogradov.

According to the article, there are 13,000 flora species in Vietnam, nearly 1.500 of which are used in traditional medicine in the country.

Vietnam’s traditional medicine has been exported to many countries and traditional medicine wine has become a souvenir of foreign tourists when they leave the country./.