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Article: Traditional Chinese medicine finds itself at a crossroads
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- November 7, 2005
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is now at a crossroads in its
existence. The key to moving on lies in the understanding of its
definition and the content of "internationalization of TCM" as well
as the consciousness of the Chinese people.
The "internationalization" of traditional Chinese medicine has two
different explanations. The first is "to popularize the academic
culture of TCM in international society" and "greatly enhance the
exports of TCM to earn foreign exchange for the country". The second
is to westernize TCM or integrate TCM with Western medicine.
It is understood that many people believe that to add scientific
factors to traditional Chinese medicine would mean to convert TCM ...