Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University was founded in 1954. It has now developed into a modern TCM specialty integrating medical care, teaching, and research, with a certain reputation nationwide.

The department currently has 33 health technicians: 14 physicians, including 1 master's supervisor, 2 doctoral degree holders, and 7 master's degree holders; among them there is 1 chief physician, 6 associate chief physicians, and 6 attending physicians; there are 19 nurses, including 1 associate chief nurse.

The department comprises 2 inpatient wards (Ward 1 on Jixi Road and Ward 2 in the South Campus).

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The department has a total of 42 beds, with approximately 60,000 outpatient visits per year, over 2,000 inpatients per year, and over 700 surgeries per year.

The department routinely offers featured outpatient services such as TCM internal medicine, TCM anorectal (proctology), TCM sleep disorders, TCM acupuncture, TCM macular and acne-like eruptions (spots, pimples, and rashes), TCM preventive treatment of disease (zhi wei bing), and TCM pediatric tuina massage. The inpatient wards carry out integrated Chinese-Western medicine treatment of acute pancreatitis, intestinal obstruction, and other internal medicine miscellaneous diseases.

The TCM department carries out featured TCM treatments such as conventional acupuncture, cupping, pediatric tuina, fire-dragon cupping, auricular point seed pressing, Chinese herbal application (patching), Chinese herbal wet compress, Du channel (Governing Vessel) moxibustion, tortoise-shell (tortoise plastron) moxibustion, Chinese herbal enema, and intradermal needling, focusing on developing integrated Chinese-Western medicine treatment of advantageous disease types such as pancreatitis, intestinal obstruction, mixed hemorrhoids, anal fistula, and perianal abscess.