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A\u00a0'Made in China' label may be associated with low prices and\u00a0shoddy\u00a0quality, but Chinese\u00a0medicine<\/a> is\u00a0bucking that trend by attracting\u00a0throngs of foreigners to consult\u00a0traditional doctors.\u00a0Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM for short, has been around for decades, playing an essential healing role<\/a> in ancient China long before Western medical practices took off.\u00a0Comparatively, TCM tends to\u00a0focus more on healing and detox<\/a>, usually prescribing patients with a combination of - admittedly\u00a0strange-tasting - natural herbs.<\/p>

While Western medicine views ailments in isolation, TCM believes that an\u00a0ailment is merely the manifestation of an imbalance of your being, and it is the root problem that needs correcting instead. The imbalance can\u00a0range from the\u00a0intangible, like your Qi (energy flow), to a\u00a0concrete homeostatic imbalance. As such, practitioners focus on gradually nursing your body back to health and balance<\/a>, which can take\u00a0a longer time than Western medicine.<\/p>

If you're wondering which one is better, our answer would be a firm neither. There are people who staunchly vouch for the efficacy of either\u00a0camps, but we believe that each has their merits and shortcomings. Perhaps what's best would be to view\u00a0TCM as a long-term, complementary alternative<\/a> to Western medicine.<\/p>

After all, taking a month to recover from that nasty flu might mean that our jobs are long gone before we get out of bed.<\/p>

Yijie Zhang<\/em><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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