A Chinese medicine clinic should have at least one Chinese medicine professional practitioner or a registered Chinese medicine professional practitioner with more than three years of practising experience, and a Chinese medicine professional practitioner in a Chinese medicine polyclinic needs more than two years of practising experience.In addition, if the clinic provides traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, it needs to be equipped with at least the appropriate qualified technical personnel.



The law and reality of plant therapy in China


Chinese plant therapy has a long history of thousands of years. It is believed to have originated from the Huangdi Neijing and Shennong's Herbal Classics, which are the compendium of Chinese plant therapy knowledge. This knowledge and experience has been used and practiced in their daily lives generation after generation. Therefore, unless the relevant legal documents are issued by the regulatory authorities, it is difficult to define the extent to which plant therapy can only be carried out by professional practitioners. The homology of Chinese medicine and food is a convincing example.


Chinese plant therapy usually has two ways, namely internal treatment or external treatment. Usually, consumers go to pharmacies with traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions to buy traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces (Chinese literally: traditional Chinese medicine tablets) for the treatment of diseases or health care. These prepared slices will be used for internal or external treatment after preparation of the decoction. Usually, prescriptions come from Chinese medicine practitioners, especially those with a good reputation (old here means reputation and age, we believe that old Chinese medicine practitioners have more experience and higher professional skills).


In fact, there are some over-the-counter tablets that are commonly used in daily life that can be sold without a prescription, and the competent authorities will publish catalogs of prescription and over-the-counter drugs that are binding on all drug-related activities. The same is true of traditional Chinese medicine preparations. Many traditional Chinese medicine preparations for the treatment of common and frequently-occurring diseases are freely available over-the-counter.
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