Traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture schools are opening all around the world at a rapid rate - India, England, America and Russia, just to name a few. Part of its popularity is the effectiveness of alternative medicines in treating things like sleep disorders, anxiety, cancer, osteoporosis, fertility disorders, anemia and other conditions. While many regard traditional Chinese medicines as “an outdated science,” the World Health Organization publicly acknowledge TCM as a legit practice in 1980 and now Western doctors are turning their heads, hoping to learn more about alternative, natural medicines that will serve as long-term treatments for their patients.

Many Americans don’t realize that traditional Chinese medicines date back nearly 5,000 years, passed down by oral tradition until about 3,000 years ago when people began writing down their findings in ancient texts like “Basic Questions of Internal Medicine” and “A Treatise On Cold Damage.” In the 1930s, the Nationalist government forbade doctors from practicing what was then called classic Chinese medicine because they feared missing out on scientific progress.

However, thirty years later, Mao Zedong chose ten highly respected doctors to create a traditional but standardized practice called Traditional Chinese Medicine. Today TCM is taught in all Chinese schools and has even made its way around the world, opening schools in England, the US and Russia.

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