The history of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is long and rich. The fact that TCM has existed for thousands of years, and TCM is still being used today is a testimonial of its value to the healthcare system.
In the development of TCM over the years, there was no sequential and systematical build up of TCM knowledge. Different TCM practitioners will through their experience in observation, smell, ask, feeling of pulse and may prescribe a person with the same symptoms different herbal remedies. But each herbal remedy will cure the symptoms even though they have different herbal ingredients.
TCM plays a very important part in the history of medicine. It is important to understand TCM through history and this will gives further insight to TCM and establishes its validity in the healthcare system.