SHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A reception day at a traditional Chinese medicine clinic in a border city in Switzerland.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Qibing.
Jia Kejie, a Chinese Chinese medicine practitioner from Switzerland, walked out of her house before dawn, and her clinic had 14 appointments that day.
Founded in 2002 on the second floor of an old building, TCM-City is one of seven TCM clinics in the Swiss border city of Schaffhausen.
Schaffhausen is the capital of the state of Schaffhausen, which borders the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the German-speaking part of Switzerland. In both German and English, "tcm" is a combination of the first letters of the words "traditional", "Chinese" and "medical".
Jia Kejie, who is also the vice president of the Swiss Association of Integrative Medicine, introduced that after traditional Chinese medicine was officially recognized by the Swiss Federal Public Health Office in 1999, the cost of traditional Chinese medicine was included in the supplementary insurance of the Swiss health insurance company, and the development of traditional Chinese medicine in Switzerland gained an important boost. At present, in addition to people from the canton of Schaffhausen, the clinic is visited by people from the canton of Zurich in the south, Thurgau in the east, and as far afield as Geneva.
In recent years, TCM has spread throughout Switzerland, starting in the health resorts of Batragac and Baden. There are TCM clinics in many cities in Switzerland, and the popularity of TCM has increased significantly.
I was still nervous when I came, and I fell asleep during the acupuncture just now. Miroslava, who came in the rain in the morning, said that she had been suffering from physical and mental disorders for a long time and had received Western medical treatment before, but the results were not satisfactory. "This time I wanted to see a Chinese medicine practitioner and found it on the recommendation of a friend. ”
Miroslava works in early childhood education and has received 12 sessions at the TCM-City clinic**. She said: "Even if I am in good health, I am willing to go to the clinic once a week to recuperate. ”
In the clinic, Jia Kejie and his partner Zhang Zhitai communicated with the patient in German throughout the whole process. Zhang Zhitai told reporters: "Doctors need to listen carefully to patients' complaints, and communication with patients is very important. ”
As a supplement to the Swiss healthcare system, many patients are referred from Western medicine by TCM clinics, but some patients voluntarily choose TCM.
I believe in nature**, and many Swiss people also regularly use herbs** to be unwell. Patient Mogill said that he had suffered a sports injury in TCM-CITY** for many years, and his wife had a chronic cough in this clinic, "After acupuncture and massage**, the whole body was very comfortable, and the Chinese medicine for cough was also effective." ”
In recent years, there has been a high degree of recognition of traditional Chinese medicine in Swiss society.
Advocating nature and returning to nature is a concept that many Europeans agree on, and Chinese medicine is a natural medicine with a complete medical theory system, which is one of the reasons why Chinese medicine flourishes in this land. Jia Kejie said that since the opening of TCM-City, more than 5,000 people have received traditional Chinese medicine in the clinic, with a total of 60,000 to 70,000 consultations.
At 6 p.m., the last patient left the clinic. Schaffhausen at night is in a festive mood. After drinking a glass of mulled wine at a lively Christmas market on the street, Jia Kejie told reporters that more than a dozen patients with appointments would come the next day, and she needed to arrive at the clinic earlier. (ENDS).