{"id":13210,"date":"2019-05-14T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalwellnessinstitute.org\/?post_type=modality&p=13210"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:07:11","slug":"traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"modality","link":"https:\/\/globalwellnessinstitute.org\/wellnessevidence\/traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm\/traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traditional Chinese Medicine:<\/strong>\u00a0Chinese medicine is a broad term encompassing many different modalities and traditions of healing. They share a common heritage of technique and theory rooted in ancient Chinese philosophy (Taoism), elements of which are believed to date back over 5,000 years. The first recorded use of TCM is said to have been around 2,000 years ago. The phrase traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is actually a recent development with a specific meaning in the long history of Chinese medicine. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Chinese government undertook an effort to combine many diverse forms of Chinese medicine into a unified system to be officially defined as traditional Chinese medicine. The intent was to integrate the country\u2019s large workforce of traditional practitioners into an organized health service delivery system. This would aid in providing care for a large population by using familiar and inexpensive methods.<\/p>\n

Research Spotlight<\/h3>\n

The databases often return hundreds of medical studies for a single wellness approach. This section summarizes a sampling of five studies \u2013 providing just a taste of the available research. These Spotlights were not selected because they are the most favorable or the most recent, but to provide you an introduction to the more extensive research you’ll uncover searching the four databases found in the \u201cResearch\u201d section of this site.<\/p>\n