Chinese Traditional Medicine Market

"Far from being subsumed under the high tide of a globally powerfull biomedicine, according to the WHO estimates in 2002, traditional medicine still accounts for about 40 percent of Chinese health care"¹.

This huge Traditional Chinese Medicinal Products Marketplace in Bozhou, Anhui Province, is a demonstration of such a vitality.

In front of the main entrance to the market a monument to the famous chinese surgeon Hua Tuo can be admired.

Photos © David Hunt. Used with permission.

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Footnotes

1. W.F.Bynum and Helen Bynum, Dictionary of medical biography, Greenwood Press, Westport (CT) 2007, vol. 1, p. 50.