background this paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional chinese medicine (tcm) hospitals in china and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (wm) at tcm hospitals.   methods quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of china health statistical yearbook and extracts o...

Background This paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals in China and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (WM) at TCM hospitals.   Methods Quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of China Health Statistical Yearbook and Extracts o...

The Chinese medical view is that each living creature is a small part of the infinite universe, and is subject to the same laws that govern the rest of the cosmos. Therefore, an understanding of health requires an understanding of the laws of nature. The practitioner views health as a state of harmony existing between the internal environment of the body and the external environment it lives in...

Department of Acupuncture and Massage, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan, China Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Futian TCM Hospital, Shenzhen, China Department of Rehabilitation, The ...

BACKGROUND This paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals in China and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (WM) at TCM hospitals. METHODS Quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of China Health Statistical Yearbook and Extracts o...

Xu Lieming1,5, Gu Jie2, Lu Xiong2, Zhou Yang1,5, Tian Tian2, Zhang Jie2 and Xu Hong2 1Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2Institute of Liver Diseases, Shanghai University of TCM 3Key Laboratory of Liver and Kidney Diseases, Ministry of Education 4Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, Shanghai 5The Key Unit of Liver Diseases, SAT...

Translational Chinese medicine is one of the latest developing fields in traditional Chinese medicine. In this paper, we discuss the “3 w” namely, “what is”, “why to advance”, “how to carry out” and the significance of translational Chinese medicine. To overcome the innate drawbacks of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the basic theory of TCM had better be refreshed. The safety and efficacy o...

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnostics, it is an important issue to study the degree of agreement among several distinct practitioners. In order to study the reliability of TCM diagnostics, we have to design an experiment to simultaneously deal with both of the cases when the data is ordinal and when there are many TCM practitioners. In this study, we consider a reliability measure c...

1 Acupuncture andMoxibustion Department, Beijing Hospital of Traditional ChineseMedicine Affiliated to CapitalMedical University, 23 Meishuguanhou Street, Dongcheng, Beijing 100010, China 2 Stronach Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, TCM Research Center Graz, Medical University of Gra...