CHAPTER 6

Entrepreneurship by Using Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine. Wu Naifeng, Tasly

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)—Chuantong Zhongguo Yao—has been in use for more than five thousand years. The concepts of this tradition share close parallels with Taoist beliefs, and are largely based on the philosophical concept that the universe is made up of an energy called qi. Any state of matter or energy in existence is comprised of this matter. According to TCM, the body is a small universe unto itself that is a complex of subsystems of energy and matter, and these systems work together to maintain a healthy mind and body. TCM’s view of the body ...

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