Traditional medicine
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Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine in China

 

Technical links

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Highlights

  • As of 2015, there were 3,966 Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hospitals and 45,528 TCM clinics across China

  • In Korea, a survey on utilization of traditional medicine conducted by Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2014 showed that 27.1% of respondents used outpatient traditional medicine services

  • A national survey on use of complementary medicine in Australia in 2005 suggested that 68.9% of participants used at least one of the 17 forms of complementary medicine and 44.1% visited a complementary medicine practitioner in the 12-month period.

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