Workers prepare herbal medicines at Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Beijing

A Chinese girl, being treated for H1N1 with traditional Chinese medicine, gives a live video conference with journalists at Ditan Hospital in Beijing on July 23, 2009. In order to bring TCM into full play in the prevention and treatment of Type A influenza H1N1, or swine flu, the Beijing Administration of TCM has set up a special service path for people to obtain herbal packets that doctors claim will help prevent H1N1 infection. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)