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    Traditional Chinese medicine

    Alternative medical systems

    Traditional Chinese medicinesdried goods shop in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

    Acupuncture

    Anthroposophic medicine

    Bowen technique

    Chiropractic

    Homeopathy

    Naturopathic medicine

    Osteopathy

    Zoopharmacognosy

    Traditional medicine

    Chinese?· Korean?· Mongolian?· Tibetan?· Unani?· Siddha?· Ayurveda

    Previous NCCAM domains

    Mind–body interventions

    Biologically based therapies

    Manipulative therapy

    Energy therapies

    Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM; simplified Chinese: 中 医; traditional Chinese: 中 醫; pinyin: zhōng yī;

    literally Chinese medicine) is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common concepts which have been

    developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various forms of herbal

    medicine, acupuncture, massage (Tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy.

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    The doctrines of Chinese medicine are rooted in books such as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and the Treatise

    on Cold Damage, as well as in cosmological notions like yin-yang and the five phases. Starting in the 1950s, these

    precepts were standardized in the People's Republic of China, including attempts to integrate them with modern

    notions of anatomy and pathology. Nonetheless, the bulk of these precepts, including the model of the body, or

    concept of disease, is not supported by science or evidence-based medicine.

    TCM's view of the body places little emphasis on anatomical structures, but is mainly concerned with the

    identification of functional entities (which regulate digestion, breathing, aging etc.). While health is perceived as

    harmonious interaction of these entities and the outside world, disease is interpreted as a disharmony in interaction.

    TCM diagnosis includes in tracing symptoms to patterns of an underlying disharmony, by measuring the pulse,inspecting the tongue, skin, eyes and by looking at the eating and sleeping habits of the patient as well as many other

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    History

    The Compendium of Materia Medica is a

    pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen

    (1518–1593 AD) during the Ming Dynasty of

    China. This edition was published in 1593.

    Acupuncture chart from Hua Shou (fl. 1340s,Yuan Dynasty). This image from Shi si jing fa hui

    (Expression of the Fourteen Meridians). (Tokyo:

    Suharaya Heisuke kanko, Kyoho gan 1716).

    Traces of therapeutic activities in China date from the Shang dynasty

    (14th–11th centuries BCE). Though the Shang did not have a concept

    of medicine as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions

    on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang

    royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc.,[2]

    which

    Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors. There

    is no evidence that the Shang nobility used herbal remedies.

    Stone and bone needles found in ancient tombs have made Joseph

    Needham speculate that acupuncture might have been carried out in the

    Shang dynasty.

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    But most historians now make a distinction between

    medical lancing (or bloodletting) and acupuncture in the narrower

    sense of using metal needles to treat illnesses by stimulating specific ......