Various organizations and individuals, both from home and overseas, are being encouraged to open more privately run TCM hospitals in the countryside, particularly those western and remote poverty-stricken areas, She Jing was quoted as saying.
Nurses preparing medicine through computerized medical equipment, doctors checking patient registration on computers and Chinese medicines with both Chinese and English descriptions......This was the scene inside a modern Chinese medicine clinic at a big shopping mall in Makati business district in Manila.
China is going to establish a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) health service system by 2020, according to a plan recently issued by the General Office of State Council. The Plan said the health service sector is expected to become an important force for promoting the change of economic society.
The health centre specializes in treating a slew of health problems foreigners frequently suffer from in Beijing, especially those caused by adjusting to a new environment and lifestyle. These include physical problems such as digestive, menstrual and joint ailments and psychological problems such as stress, insomnia and depression.
TCM is known for its empirical diagnostic approach, which is totally different from that of Western medicine. With a history of more than 2,000 years, its theories and methodologies are based on the accumulated experience of many generations of practitioners. Thousands of recipes have been accumulated that have been tailored by the conditions of patients for generations.
The pulse in traditional Chinese medicine is one of the windows to the inner body functions. It is similar to ripples in a pond created by stone. Any objects in the pond affect the shape of the ripples. One can tell where there might be something obstructing the ripples.
Pei Sheng considers himself a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) doctor trained in a most conventional way. When he was 8, Pei's father Pei Xueyi, a well-known TCM expert in Beijing Children's Hospital, would ask him to recite the TCM classics. Today, when father and son chat, it is invariably about treating patients.
Italy's health minister said she would do more to promote traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in her country and within the EU. Livia Turco said in an interview with China Daily yesterday: "Italy will issue licenses to TCM practitioners in the near future."
The basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) will be included in textbooks for primary and middle schools, according to State Councilor and Vice-Premier Wu Yi, speaking at a TCM conference yesterday in Beijing.
More and more people are attracted to the health values of the old indigenous Chinese religion of Taoism today. Four years ago, Wang Chengya opened Beijing's first Taoist health club, which now already became a thriving hub for stressed-out city siders.
But on the heels of the conclusion of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), TCM basically broke away from Taoism to become an independent branch. However, Taoism and TCM still shared similar philosophies and even the same literary classics.
Traditional Chinese medicine saved the life of Anton Staudinger's father in the 1980s - so the German decided that more of his compatriots should benefit from it. Staudinger opened a TCM clinic at Bad Kotztine, a small town of 75,00 people, 17 years ago.