Seize the opportunity to promote traditional Chinese medicine to sail far away

　　In response to the "forced mechanism" of the international community, traditional Chinese medicine must go out and "suffer foreign sins" and learn to actively embrace the world.

　　“Yo yo, the deer roars, eating the wild wormwood. ”Tu Youyou, a name taken from the Book of Songs, will forever be engraved in the history of the Nobel Prize. It also made the world's attention focus on traditional Chinese medicine through artemisinin. At this moment, people can't help but have expectations: Can Chinese medicine endorsed by the Nobel Prize take this opportunity to sail away and speed up the process of internationalization?

　　For a long time, the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine has been awkward. Traditional Chinese medicine has been clamoring to “go global” for many years, but it has always been at home. Entering the existing Western medical system, it faces many barriers such as policies, technologies, and regulations. One of the important factors is cultural differences. “"Catch a big handful, cook a big pot, drink a big bowl." It is not an easy task for foreigners to take dark Chinese medicine into their stomachs. Although "no one can see the cultivation, God knows the intention", but people living in the Western context cannot understand the "deficiency and excess of yin and yang, warm and cold", and they have no idea what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　On December 8, at the "Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine: Swedish Dialogue on Traditional Chinese Medicine" event held in Stockholm, Sweden, Eva Marie Janeiro, President of the Swedish Acupuncture Association, said: "After Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize, we felt that this was the bridge we had been looking for. We believe that as a result, traditional Chinese medicine will receive more and more recognition in the West. ”As mentioned, building bridges is the key to Chinese medicine going global. In the movie "Gua Sha", Gua Sha, which is a common practice in China, is regarded as physical injury abroad, and has even been appealed to the court. Ordinary people abroad may not even see the shadow of the "iceberg" of traditional Chinese medicine, and naturally cannot appreciate the magic and mystery of traditional Chinese medicine. Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize, which has built a bridge for the West to understand traditional Chinese medicine, which will help increase the interest and attention of the Western medical community and promote the acceptance of traditional Chinese medicine therapies overseas.

　　Many people wonder, if Chinese people don’t have enough Chinese medicine, why should reluctant foreigners take it? In fact, going global with Chinese medicine is no longer just wishful thinking. my country's status as a major country in traditional medicine is being challenged by countries and regions such as South Korea, Japan, Europe and the United States. Foreign traditional Chinese medicines continue to land in China, creating a double squeeze on my country's traditional Chinese medicine industry. If traditional Chinese medicine does not go global and meet the challenges of internationalization, it will not only lose its vast market, but even lose its right to speak internationally, and will eventually be unable to escape the fate of being "internationalized". In response to the "forced mechanism" of the international community, traditional Chinese medicine must go out and "suffer foreign sins" and learn to actively embrace the world.

　　On December 9, the State Council executive meeting passed the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Law (Draft)" and submitted it to the National People's Congress Standing Committee for review. At present, the development of traditional Chinese medicine is ushering in a broader space. For a long time, traditional Chinese medicine, known as the "quintessence of China", lacked legal protection at the national level. Discrimination against, denial of, and cancellation of Chinese medicine frequently occur in society, which has greatly affected the development of Chinese medicine. Although the promulgation of a traditional Chinese medicine method cannot cure all "severe illnesses," it is at least loosening the rope that restricts the development of traditional Chinese medicine. It is time for Qihuang's technique to flourish.

　　Not only has the Nobel Prize built a bridge for traditional Chinese medicine to connect the world, but the “Belt and Road Initiative” has also opened a “train” for traditional Chinese medicine to travel to other countries. “There are 65 countries along the Belt and Road, with a total population of approximately 4.4 billion. Traditional Chinese medicine is the best "glue" for different civilizations to integrate and develop together. The issue of internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine is also expected to end the long-term state of scattered troops and fighting independently, and enter the national planning level, becoming a new area of ​​cooperation for all parties, which is just around the corner.

　　Lighting up the future of the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine cannot be separated from the changes in the external environment, nor can it be separated from the efforts of traditional Chinese medicine to cultivate its internal strength. An era of internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine that learns from each other and complements modern medicine has quietly arrived. By seizing the new historical opportunity, ancient Chinese medicine will surely remain new and full of vitality.