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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 18 U.S. R amp;amp; D status of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and its relationship with China Comparison of Chinese medicine research [Abstract] the United States, including Chinese Medicine Complementary and Alternative Medicine, including the study of increasing concern to study the size and investment increasing. The emphasis on Chinese medicine, Eastern and Western knowledge and background, ways of thinking as well as recognition of TCM theory, the different levels of lead China and the United States in medical research there are differences on the content and ideas. [Keywords:] the United States; alternative medicine; complementary medicine; traditional medicine, China; Research Abstract: Researches on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), including traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), are attracting more and more attention in the United States, and their scale and investment are progressively increasing. The differences between China and the United States in application of TCM therapies, background of Eastern and Western knowledge, thinking model, as well as the recognition of TCM theories lead to the differences in content and design of TCM researches. Keywords: United States; alternative medicine; complementary medicine; traditional medicine, Chinese; research Since the posterior lobe of the 20th century, the international community to non-biological medical systems Complementary and Alternative Medicine (complementary and alternative medicine, CAM) point of view and attitudes change, the increasing importance and concern, such as professional medical journal published annually by the relevant randomized controlled trials of CAM up to 1 200 [1]. Chinese medicine in the world belong to CAM, the main treatment methods and scientific content. Such as the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCCAM) at the end of 2005, announced th