The pharmaceutical industry is encouraged to use modern technology in researching traditional medicine, while hospitals and researchers are encouraged to try traditional therapies in treating complex chronic diseases.
TCM, as a quintessential Chinese practice, has been accepted by a growing number of countries. According to statistics from the World Health Organization and related groups, TCM has spread to 171 countries and regions; acupuncture has been used in 103 countries.
Owner Dainius Butvilas, a 39-year-old Lithuanian, is the only doctor at the clinic, which has been running since 2009 in Kaunas. He can speak Chinese, practices martial arts, and can kill pain with silver needles in the ancient Chinese way.
Lu's Acupuncture was founded by Lu Shouyan (1909-1969), a famous acupuncturist who started to learn medicine from his father Li Peiqing at the age of 16. The treatment was included in national intangible cultural heritage list in 2011.
For many years farmers in Weiyuan county, Gansu province, have made their living by growing TCM herbs like astragalus mongholicus and angelica, but profits have always been thin and the living poor.
The 82 students from nine countries were shown techniques of acupuncture, massage, cupping therapy, scraping therapy, and identification of TCM materials in the cultural museum of Changchun Shengxiutang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
In 1989, Tongrentang became China's first international trademark to use the Madrid System. The company now has 115 outlets and joint ventures in 25 countries and regions overseas, with its products being sold in about 50 countries and regions.
"The person who created this stuff should receive a Nobel Prize, front row seats at the Olympics, an entire stable of miniature giraffes, and free Ivy League education for their children," wrote one user who claimed that she could not even sit or stand the day before using the cream but could function the following day.
In the activity areas, there were streams of people busily coming and going. Citizens came to seek medical consultation in an endless stream.
Eighty-five-year old Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou became China's first medicine Nobel laureate when it was announced she was one of three scientists awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in developing effective drugs against parasitic diseases.
China has its first Nobel Prize in Medicine. And 84-year-old Tu Youyou said she was not surprised to get it.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- China's Tu Youyou, Irish-born William Campbell and Japan's Satoshi Omura jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced Monday.