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China plans to build a national museum on traditional Chinese medicine, according to Thursday's China Health News.
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China plans to build a national museum on traditional Chinese medicine, according to Thursday's China Health News.
The museum proposal came from 11 members of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top advisory body.
Statistics show that China boasts over 500,000 traditional herbal relics that are either kept by private collectors or housed in history museums, temples, medical universities or research bodies.
The national museum will collect, preserve and exhibit the traditional medical heritage of China's various ethnic groups in its 5,000 years of history, said the newspaper report, which quoted a source attending a recent seminar on the preparatory work for the museum.
Theory of traditional Chinese medicineWithin Chinese Cosmology, all of creation is born from the marriage of two polar priciples, Yin and Yang: Earth and Heaven, winter and summer, night and day, cold and hot, wet and dry, inner and outer, body and mind. Harmony of this union means health, good weather, and good fortune, while disharmony leads to disease, disaster, and bad luck. The strategy of Chinese medicine is to restore harmony.
Each human is seen as a world in miniature, a garden in which doctor and patient together strive to cultivate health. Every person has a unique terrain to be mapped, a resilient yet sensitive ecology to be maintained. Like a gardener uses irrigation and compost to grow robust plants, the doctor uses acupuncture, herbs and food to recover and sustain health.
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