5 - Chinese Medicine Serving African Populations

The Chinese medicine tradition, based on the play of energies in the Universe and in man was built over millennia, and its present evolution is the guarantee of its vitality. This several thousand years old medicine focus on the balance of the Yin Yang energies to gain optimal health.
The different branches of Chinese medicine: acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping therapy, scrapping therapy, Chinese massage therapy or Tuina, herbal medicine, nutrition therapy, energetic exercises such as Qigong and Taijiquan are all easily imported to Africa and very welcomed by local people. Example of the Chinese medical missions throughout Africa since 1963 and even earlier
Its objective is to contribute, in terms of healthcare, to the development of greater autonomy for disadvantaged populations, by providing them ease of access, natural, lower cost therapeutic practice.
Under these conditions, Chinese medicine has proven to be an extremely valuable complementary and alternative therapy. Through its similarity with African medicine, its curative but also preventive action, it induced significant savings on medication and lower side effects. With the autonomy acquired by practitioners trained in this medical art, Chinese medicine considerably reduces their dependence on external aid and contributes to the preservation of human dignity.
Chinese medicine has effective practice of therapeutic protocols applicable to the most common functional pathological conditions in my country in particular and in Africa in general: respiratory, digestive, gynecological disorders, rheumatic pain, mental disorders etc.
As an African Chinese medicine specialist, I believed by using Chinese medicine as a reference we can help develop and theoretically systematize African medicine which has lost its essence due to oral traditions and its drawbacks and make it regain its golden age as the mother-medicine of humanity.