Chinese medicine is a treasure of the Chinese nation. In recent years, Chinese medicine has also gradually gone global, providing health services to overseas people while playing a positive role in spreading traditional Chinese culture and promoting people-to-people communication. As the first country in Europe to legislate for Chinese medicine, Hungary's Chinese medicine has flourished, and more and more people have felt the charm of Chinese medicine. Let's follow the reporter's camera to take a look.
There is a saying in Hungarian proverbs that you can find ingredients for healing in the woods. Such a viewpoint coincides with the concept of “food and medicine from the same source” in the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is based on such a soil, the culture of traditional Chinese medicine along the “Belt and Road”, across the mountains and the sea, has become an indispensable link and a bridge for cultural exchanges between China and Hungary.
At the Hungarian Qihuang Chinese Medicine Center, which opened in 2016, many Hungarian patients come to the center every day. Chen Zhen, the head of this TCM center, has been actively promoting TCM culture in the region since 1988, and he holds large-scale charity clinics and TCM skills training courses from time to time. The local people have gradually changed from unfamiliarity to recognition of Chinese medicine culture, and the influence of Chinese medicine has been increasing.
Chen Zhen, President of the Central and Eastern European Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Head of the Hungarian Qihuang TCM Center: Chinese medicine has even become an important part of their lives, they can know what to eat in the four seasons, how to detoxify in the spring, how to regulate the body in the winter, how to recuperate the heart in the summer, and these stories are very easy for them to understand.
Hungarian patient: After many failed treatments, I chose this path of Chinese medicine treatment, I have heard of many people who have been treated successfully here, and I believe Chinese medicine can help me.
Hungarian Qihuang TCM Center's interpreter, Sissi: Through TCM, many patients have been helped and even some difficult cases have been improved, so I think TCM is becoming more and more popular in Hungary.
Chen Zhen has witnessed the vigorous development of TCM in Hungary under the “Belt and Road” initiative. As the first country in Europe to legislate for Chinese medicine, in 2016, the Hungarian government issued a license for Chinese medicine practitioners to practice medicine in the European Union and recognized the academic qualifications of Chinese higher education institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, the Hungarian University of Pécs and the Zemel Weiss University of Medicine in cooperation with domestic universities of traditional Chinese medicine to carry out the teaching and research of traditional Chinese medicine. At present, Hungary has already built Chinese medicine pharmaceutical factories, producing more than 300 products licensed for sale in the European Union, which are popular in the European market.
Chen Zhen, President of the Central and Eastern European Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Head of the Hungarian Qihuang TCM Center: Our Belt and Road not only involves the construction of railroads and highways, but also the promotion of people-to-people exchanges. Hungary's policy of “opening up to the east” and our Belt and Road are deeply compatible, and there are deep cultural exchanges between the two countries, so that civilizations can learn from each other, and reach joint beauty.