The comprehensive development of traditional Chinese medicine into an international evidence-based way

The 2018-10-21 news

Zhang caiping, correspondent of eastday.com, reported on October 21 that acupuncture and moxibustion has become a "national ritual" and artemisinin has been a boon to millions of patients around the world. Recently, the good news came from the sino-australian Chinese medicine center, which was set up in the university of western Sydney in Australia. A group of master's degree students in traditional Chinese medicine from Beijing university of Chinese medicine and west Sydney university have officially graduated. Meanwhile, the sino-australian Chinese medicine center has formally reached the cooperation intention with the southwest health department in Sydney, Australia and Liverpool hospital, which has a history of more than 200 years. Besides, the project of planting Chinese medicine in Australia is also on the agenda.

The establishment of the sino-australian TCM center has opened a new situation for the interdisciplinary and multinational dialogue between Chinese and Australian TCM. Associate professor xiao-shu zhu, director of the center of Chinese and Australian Chinese medicine and associate professor of health at the university of western Sydney in Australia, is an academic leader in cancer research at the national institute of complementary medicine at the university of western Sydney. With the support of China's national study abroad fund and Australia's breast cancer prevention fund, the cross-border communication and dialogue between Chinese and western medicine in the treatment of malignant tumors has officially started, zhu said. A group of Australian oncology medical experts have visited Chinese medical schools and teaching hospitals in Beijing and guangzhou for many times, which has gained more support for the development of Chinese medicine. These exchanges are very beneficial to the development and promotion of Chinese medicine in Australia. Among them, Liverpool hospital, banksy city hospital and camby city hospital, which are under the jurisdiction of the southwest health department in Sydney, are becoming partners in the development of tumor research in traditional Chinese medicine.

In September, the Chinese and Australian Chinese medicine center and Liverpool hospital in Australia reached a letter of intent to establish a Chinese medicine tumor research alliance, with a view to jointly carrying out basic and clinical research on Chinese medicine in cancer treatment. Macao Liverpool hospital is introduced, based on and the university of western Sydney, Australia's national complementary medicine research institute, Beijing cancer hospital and Chinese academy of sciences at the university of xiyuan hospital, long-term cooperation, prior to that, by the repeated proof ethics committee, two sino-australian cooperation of traditional Chinese medicine tumor clinical scientific research project has won the department of health ethics committee approval, south-west of Sydney began to recruit patients respectively, has 11 patients to participate in the Chinese medicine outside wash peripheral neuritis caused by chemotherapy toxicity reaction, 12 breast cancer survivors to accept the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hot flashes caused by endocrine therapy intervention experiment of night sweats. Meanwhile, with strong support from the local mainstream medicine of the southwest health department in Sydney, the Chinese medicine center has developed cooperation with more domestic medical institutions. At present, with the first affiliated hospital of guangzhou university of Chinese medicine and the Oriental hospital of Beijing university of Chinese medicine, the research on cancer fatigue by using traditional Chinese medicine or massage, and the design of the subject of end-of-life care and acupuncture for cancer pain by using traditional Chinese medicine in dongzhimen hospital of Beijing university of Chinese medicine are in full swing.

It is understood that in November 2014, Chinese and Australian leaders attended and witnessed the signing of the memorandum establishing the "western Sydney university - Beijing university of Chinese medicine - Australian Chinese medicine center". In December 2016, the center was listed as a national TCM administration TCM international cooperation project and became the "" china-australia TCM center (Sydney)" "of the state TCM administration. With the support of the ministry of education of China, the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine, the state hanban, the international commission for study abroad, the state foreign affairs bureau and the Australian ministry of foreign affairs and trade, the center of traditional Chinese medicine in China and Australia has made a series of achievements in the fields of medicine, education, research and culture.

The activities of scientific popularization and voluntary diagnosis carried out by Chinese medicine in overseas countries convey the original intention of Chinese medicine to serve the health. While serving the local people, the correct knowledge and culture of traditional Chinese medicine were also popularized. A series of work carried out by the Chinese medicine center in Australia has also made Chinese medicine products more and more popular in Australia. "" the scientific spirit and cultural inheritance are two wings for the long-term development of TCM, and the international vision and pattern are promoting the development of TCM in an all-round way." " Said professor xu anlong, President of Beijing university of traditional Chinese medicine. He said that the medical centers in China and Australia focus on the four fields of medicine, education, research and literature, and have made a series of achievements and breakthroughs, which marks that the exploration of traditional Chinese medicine in the world's diversified development pattern has entered a new stage.