Traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure of the Chinese nation, and in recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has gradually gone to the world, providing health services to overseas people, and also playing a positive role in spreading Chinese traditional culture and promoting people-to-people bonds. As the first country in Europe to legislate for traditional Chinese medicine, Hungary's traditional Chinese medicine has flourished, and more and more people have felt the charm of traditional Chinese medicine. Let's follow the reporter's lens to take a look.
Reporter Zhang Juan: There is a Hungarian proverb that you can find ingredients for healing in the woods. Such a view coincides with the concept of "food and medicine homology" in the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is based on this soil that the culture of traditional Chinese medicine has become an indispensable link and bridge in the cultural exchanges between China and Hungary along the "Belt and Road", through mountains and seas.
The Qihuang Traditional Chinese Medicine Center in Hungary, which opened in 2016, has seen many Hungarian patients every day. Since 1988, Chen Zhen, the head of the Chinese medicine center, has been actively promoting the culture of traditional Chinese medicine in the local area, holding large-scale free clinics and holding traditional Chinese medicine skills training courses from time to time. The local people's understanding of the culture of traditional Chinese medicine has gradually changed from unfamiliarity to recognition, and the influence of traditional Chinese medicine has been increasing.
Chen Zhen, President of the Central and Eastern European Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Head of the Qihuang Traditional Chinese Medicine Center in Hungary: Traditional Chinese medicine has even become an important part of their lives, they can know how to eat different things in the four seasons, how to detoxify in spring, how to cultivate in winter, and how to nourish their hearts in summer.
Hungarian patient: After many failed treatments, I chose the path of TCM treatment, I have heard that many people have been successfully treated here, and I believe that TCM can help me.
Translator at Qihuang Traditional Chinese Medicine Center in Hungary: Through traditional Chinese medicine, many patients have been helped, and even some incurable diseases have been improved, so I think traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more popular in Hungary.
Chen Zhen witnessed the vigorous development of Hungarian traditional Chinese medicine under the Belt and Road Initiative. As the first country in Europe to legislate for traditional Chinese medicine, in 2016, the Hungarian government issued an EU medical license for TCM physicians and recognized the qualifications of Chinese higher TCM schools. At present, Hungary has established a traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical factory, and more than 300 products produced have obtained licenses for sale in the European Union, which are widely popular in the European market.
Chen Zhen, President of the Central and Eastern European Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Head of the Qihuang Traditional Chinese Medicine Center in Hungary: Our "Belt and Road" is not only about the construction of railways and highways, but also about people-to-people bonds. Hungary's "Open to the East" policy and our "One Belt, One Road" are deeply compatible, and the two countries have in-depth cultural exchanges, so that civilizations can learn from each other and share the United States.
Source: CCTV news client
Editor: Xiang Yanhong