TCM spreads its wings across the globe By ZHAO RUINAN | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-07-05 07:44 Share CLOSE Foreign students majoring in medicine at the School of International Education at Xi an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi province, practice Chinese massage. YUAN JINGZHI/FOR CHINA DAILY
Ancient form of medicine shared with many countries and regions
When Arvin Kuipers asks his patients to stick out their tongue so he can diagnose their ailments, many of them are confused.
The 30-year-old, who practices Traditional Chinese Medicine in Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, said: In TCM, I need to do face and tongue diagnosis. That s strange for people in my country. They ask me, What are you doing?
From:ChinaDaily | 2021-07-05 07:44
Ancient form of medicine shared with many countries and regions
When Arvin Kuipers asks his patients to stick out their tongue so he can diagnose their ailments, many of them are confused.
The 30-year-old, who practices Traditional Chinese Medicine in Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, said: In TCM, I need to do face and tongue diagnosis. That s strange for people in my country. They ask me, What are you doing?
Diagnostic methods for TCM are so different from those used in Western medicine that many people in the Netherlands and other countries－even patients with some knowledge of the subject－can have difficulty understanding what is happening.