After the opening of relations between the United States and China after 1972, there was great interest in the West for what is now called traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In the 1950s, the Chinese government sponsored the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, and in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, promoted Chinese medicine as inexpensive and popular. Traditional practitioners then selected elements of philosophy and practice and organized them into what they called "Chinese medicine" ( Zhongyi).
In the early twentieth century, Chinese cultural and political modernizers worked to eliminate traditional practices as backward and unscientific. Medicine in traditional China encompassed a range of sometimes competing health and healing practices, folk beliefs, literati theory and Confucian philosophy, herbal remedies, food, diet, exercise, medical specializations, and schools of thought.
It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of action.
Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China.
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