Traditional Chinese Medicine in Canada: An Indigenous Perspective
Traditional Chinese Medicine in Canada: An Indigenous Perspective作者机构:Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership StudiesFaculty of EducationUniversity of VictoriaVictoriaCanada
出 版 物:《Chinese Medicine and Culture》 (中医药文化(英文))
年 卷 期:2019年第2卷第1期
页 面:1-5页
学科分类:1006[医学-中西医结合] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 10[医学]
主 题:Canada indigenous philosophy traditional Chinese medicine
摘 要:This paper summarizes the practice of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)in Canada by exploring why so many indigenous people are drawn to *** present a brief history of TCM in Canada,including its acceptance by 5 of the 10 provinces in Canada as one of the medical approaches,accepted and regulated by the *** philosophy embedded in TCM is compared to indigenous philosophy,and there is a description of some of the plants and animals used as remedies in indigenous folk *** addition,there is a short description of how TCM psychology parallels some practices in indigenous psychology.