What kind of traditional medicine is intangible cultural heritage?

Acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine is an intangible cultural heritage.

Chinese acupuncture is a medical method of Chinese medicine, which has been widely used in China, Southeast Asia, Europe and America. According to the theory of acupuncture and moxibustion, the human body is like a small universe connected by various meridians, which is physically stimulated, including moxibustion or acupuncture at the acupoints of these meridians. In acupuncture, according to everyone's specific situation, choose to use needles, and then use needles to stimulate acupoints.

Moxibustion is usually divided into direct moxibustion and indirect moxibustion, that is, putting the moxa stick directly on the acupoint, or putting the moxa stick very close to the external surface to bake the selected area. The mugwort tube and moxa stick are made of dried mugwort leaves. Acupuncture is passed down from master to apprentice or from family through oral lectures and practical demonstrations. The inheritance of acupuncture has also been brought into the formal academic education system. 20 10 acupuncture and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine is listed in the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.

Development of acupuncture and moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine;

I learned from state administration of traditional chinese medicine that most places in the world have Chinese medicine and acupuncture clinics run by China people or local people. According to reports, there are more than 1. 1 000 registered professional acupuncturists in the United States, 30,000 in Germany, more than 5,000 in Mexico, 4,500 in Australia, 0.5 million in Brazil, 0.5 million in Singapore and 0.5 million in China.

Even Kiribati, a South Pacific island country with a population of only 20,000, has two Chinese medicine clinics. These numerous and widely distributed Chinese acupuncture clinics have laid a broad foundation for Chinese medicine to go global. In recent 20 years, foreign Chinese medicine clinics have made new progress. In Korea, the United States, Vietnam, France, Brazil and other countries, some government-run western medicine hospitals have opened acupuncture clinics, and some have also opened Chinese medicine clinics, which have improved the status of acupuncturists.

Other clinics hold acupuncture and Chinese medicine teaching, and become practice clinics for students of local medical colleges, which not only cultivate local acupuncture and moxibustion talents, but also improve the academic level of the clinics.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture