Chinese medicine in the United States on the Development and Current Situation.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 14 Chinese medicine in the United States on the Development and Current Situation Keywords:] United States, traditional Chinese medicine; Acupuncture Since 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China, the two countries opened the door to exchanges in various fields, Chinese medicine has been in the United States to take root, flower and bear fruit. After 30 years of development, traditional Chinese medicine in the United States by the initial marginalization, localized, non-normalized gradually toward the common, popular, the direction of legalization. More and more Americans to understand Chinese medicine to gradually from the understanding of Chinese medicine, to the recognition and acceptance of traditional Chinese medicine. 1 of acupuncture in the United States 1971 lt;lt;New York Timesgt;gt; come to China after reporter James Reston of its clinical findings and experience of acupuncture reported in the media, and then in 1973 President Nixon visited China and professor of medicine at Harvard University, Bank of China Group of Acupuncture Anesthesia intake of whole process, and made public later, a huge response, so a household name in the United States of acupuncture, acupuncture schools, acupuncture clinics, as if springing into being, thus giving rise to an “American Acupuncture hot” wave. After decades of ups and downs, Americans gradually came to accept and cognitive acupuncture, then I believe acupuncture. According to statistics, about 70% of Americans have received or are receiving acupuncture therapy, acupuncture industry output value reached 1.65 billion U.S. dollars, while acupuncture into the United States, also experienced a series of legalization and standardization, modernization and insurance reform legislation .1.1 70 years of the 20th century, the United States “acupuncture fever” Since its inception, the United States as more and more people need acupuncture treatment, and there was no legal norms, r