I have heard that Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is an ancient healing art; how old is it?
The oldest and most revered text in the canon of TCM is called the Classic of Internal Medicine (Huang Di Nei Ching), that dates from the second century B.C.E., which gives TCM a history of more than 3,000 years. It contains the framework upon which TCM is practiced today. However, since ancient times, untold thousands of practitioners have added to the knowledge. The accumulated knowledge of the centuries regarding the use of herbs, acupuncture, diet and exercise, among other treatments, is available to modern doctors and their patients. In China today, scientific research continues to explain and expand upon the knowledge of the ancient writers, and TCM is considered to be commensurate with Western medicine.
