Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is currently the best-preserved and most influential traditional medical system with the largest number of users worldwide. In recent years, the trend of TCM adoption has increased greatly, but the process of TCM internationalization has suffered from a series of setbacks for both internal and external reasons. Thus, the process of TCM internationalization fac...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been a cultural treasure of China for thousands years, and it is unique medical in China. As health preserving culture TCM, mugwort renowned worldwide. This article aims to focus on the relationship between traditional mugwort, combine concept preservation demonstrate importance culture, order further inherit promote excellent culture.

In this paper, the authors examine and interpret the concept of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) whom the Chinese believes and practices for so many centuries. The authors also explain the ancient Chinese concepts of Chi and Tao (Yin and Yang) which are the foundation of the TCM. This paper also seeks to discuss the ways of attaining a healthy body with the clarity of mind as well as to demon...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an important component of complementary and alternative medicine, has evolved over thousands of years with its own unique system of theories, diagnostics and therapies. TCM has been increasingly used in the last decades and become well known for its significant role in preventing and treating cancer. We believe that TCM possesses advantages over Western medic...

Clinical effect is of great importance to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and the rigorous and scientific methods for clinical effect assessment should be highly stressed in the clinical research of TCM. In this article, the authors analyzed the current status of the effect assessment of TCM and proposed some measures to improve the current effect assessment of TCM, in the hope of establish...

Rapid advancing computational technologies have greatly speeded up the development of computer-aided drug design (CADD). Recently, pharmaceutical companies have increasingly shifted their attentions toward traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for novel lead compounds. Despite the growing number of studies on TCM, there is no free 3D small molecular structure database of TCM available for virtual ...

BACKGROUND Use of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an important category of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), has increased substantially in Western countries during the past decade. Use of TCM is also widespread in the Chinese population. However, few informative data have been obtained to date by large-scale investigations of TCM use in the Chinese population. This study was ai...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a representative of China's traditional medicine, with long history and profound cultural heritage, embodying the vast wisdom nation. Throughout TCM, many famous doctors scholars have emerged, such as Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao, Li Shizhen. Their summarized principles prevention treatment, well practical experience, had significant impact on ...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been practiced for over 5000 years. Different from western medicine which has its origin from anatomy, TCM is based on the ancient Chinese perception of humans as part of the environment and universe, subject to nature and its forces, therefore, health and diseases are direct result of the interaction of humans with the environment and the balance of disti...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has produced impressive responses in treatment of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients. However, various terms, such as principle, standard, assumption, convention, and concept, for TCM treatment are not accepted by conventional AIDS experts. The increasing popularity of TCM has also inspired horror about their toxicity and uncertainty of complex...