Traditional Chinese medicine is taking off in countries like Thailand and Indonesia, where emigrants are helping to popularize the ancient practice. Liu Xiangrui reports.
In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has been gaining in popularity around the world, and nowhere more than in Southeast Asia, where many Chinese continue to use these ancient remedies.
Thida Pechsiri, a 25-year-old resident of Bangkok, is not a frequent user of TCM, but she still holds the 2,500 year-old medical practices in high regard like her mother, a descendant of Chinese emigrants.
Extracted from chinadaily