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Why Chinese medicine is heading for clinics around the world

For the first time, the World Health Organization will recognize traditional medicine in its influential global medical compendium.
  1. David Cyranoski

    1. David Cyranoski reports for Nature from Shanghai, China.

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Choi Seung-hoon thought he had an impossible assignment. On a grey autumn day in Beijing in 2004, he embarked on a marathon effort to get a couple of dozen representatives from Asian nations to boil down thousands of years of knowledge about traditional Chinese medicine into one tidy classification system.

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Nature 561, 448-450 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06782-7

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