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Article: More Foreigners Attracted to Traditional Chinese Medicine
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
CopyrightCopyright 1995 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Westerners are becoming more interested in traditional Chinese
medicine, no longer regarding it as some kind of witchcraft.
Statistics show that the number of foreigners studying acupuncture
treatment and herbal medicine in China comes second only to those
studying Chinese.
For example, central China's Hubei Traditional Chinese Medicine
College is now accommodating some 130 students from more than 10
countries, such as Belgium, France, Sweden, the Republic of Korea and
Singapore.
"There is a trend of 'returning to nature' in modern treatment,
which is in line with the doctrine of traditional Chinese medicine,"
said Zhang Liutong, president of the college.
He added that traditional Chinese ...