Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) at Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital is a comprehensive department integrating traditional diagnosis and treatment, preventive care and rehabilitative physical therapy, as well as clinical care, teaching and research. It describes its workforce as well structured, its medical skills as accomplished and its TCM characteristics as prominent. It offers specialty clinics for rheumatology and immunology, pain, men’s health, spleen and stomach conditions, emotional conditions and insomnia, and develops premium services to meet different groups’ needs for TCM. Emphasizing TCM syndrome differentiation and disease identification, it provides herbal decoction pieces, proprietary Chinese medicines, acupuncture, tuina, pediatric tuina, herbal applications to acupoints, TCM constitution assessment, acupoint injection and herbal fumigation, alongside modern diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. It reports considerable experience with many chronic and complex diseases. The department promotes the TCM concept of preventive treatment before illness and offers preventive services such as summer applications for conditions associated with winter, specialized moxibustion and herbal paste prescriptions.