Significance of World Traditional Medicine Day

The significance of World Traditional Medicine Day is as follows:

On June 5438+099 1, 10, state administration of traditional chinese medicine and the World Health Organization jointly held the International Conference on Traditional Medicine. Human health needs traditional medicine. As the name implies, traditional medicine corresponds to modern medicine, which usually refers to the use of medical experience and technology passed down from history, or refers to medical experience and diagnosis and treatment technology in various historical development stages before modern medicine. The traditional medicine of all countries in the world is a rare treasure of the international medical community.

With the emergence of toxic side effects of chemicals and the increasing number of drug-induced diseases, the R&D cost in biochemical drugs remains high, and people begin to call for returning to nature, hoping to use natural drugs and green plants for disease treatment and health care. Traditional Chinese medicine in China is one of the main representatives of traditional medicine in the world. Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years, and has been widely used in Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea and other countries. The United States, Europe and other western developed countries have gradually begun to attach importance to Chinese medicine.

In order to prevent the cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine from being pre-declared by other countries, state administration of traditional chinese medicine has been planning to declare the world cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine since 2003, and has maintained communication with UNESCO. According to state administration of traditional chinese medicine, at present, the draft of "Chinese medicine declared as a world cultural heritage" has been drafted, and the first step is to declare Chinese medicine as a world intangible cultural heritage.