The Chinese traditional medical treatment of acupuncture or piercing the body with a needle is a treatment which focuses on the inside from the outside.
Scraping is a technique which developed from traditional Chinese medicine theory. The earliest tool was a special kind of stone "bian shi".
Zhen jiu is a therapy that combines both acupuncture-the inserting and manipulating of needles into pressure points-and moxibustion.
A government-backed industry alliance to further promote traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) throughout the world has been launched in Beijing - the first such organization in the country.
Exports of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the global market were valued at $1.46 billion, Wang Guoqiang, director of the State Administration of TCM, said Saturday.
Thirty-one doctors from 14 countries arrived at a university in North China's Shanxi province last week to learn the traditional Chinese way of curing the sick.
China has completed its first nationwide study of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as it is currently practiced and a report on the findings is expected in November.
In an area full of shabby bungalows north of the Temple of Heaven in southern Beijing, a garden is perched on the roof of a traditional courtyard home.
A patient undergoes cupping treatment, a traditional Chinese remedy, at a weight loss centre in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province June 21, 2010.