Reflections on the Past and Future of Integrative Medicine from a Lifelong Student of the Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine

• 来源期刊: 中国结合医学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（1）
• 页码范围: 3-5
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1007/sl1655-011-0622-5

摘要

This issue of the Chinese Joumal of Integrative Medicine includes a discussion of integrative medicine (IM)from various perspectives.Dr.Andrew Weil provides a comprehensive overview of the field from the US and Western perspectives(1);doctors Dobos and Tao(2) delineate those aspects of Westem IM which relate directly to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM);doctors Lee,Shin,et al(3) provide a systematic review of controlled trials of IM from the Korean literature;and Dr.Robinson contrasts IM in the West (United Kingdom) with IM in China(4).Importantly,each of these articles highlights the extraordinary relevance of TCM to emerging models of "IM" worldwide.