Sly Young doesn’t always believe in “woo-woo” medicine. But she comes from a long line of traditional healers predisposed to trust themselves over conventional Western medicine. Which is one reason why, when she felt her treatment for her neurodivergence and chronic post traumatic stress become less effective during the pandemic, she started exploring what she describes as sacred earth medicine.

In recent years, thanks to the policies of the Hainan Free Trade Port, more international visitors have come to Sanya Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and its affiliated Sanya International Friendship Sanatorium of TCM to learn TCM techniques and experience TCM treatments.

to deliver more tailored care

City’s first dedicated traditional Chinese medicine hospital will also launch 10 additional special disease programmes within this year

For centuries, traditional Chinese medicine processors had no thermometers or automated equipment to tell them when a herb was ready to be dispensed.

In the bustling Dashilar area, a renowned tourist destination in downtown Beijing, Melvyn, a young man from Brussels, stepped into the Tong Ren Tang pharmacy, a time-honored brand with over 350 years of history.