Australia opens up to the secrets of Chinese medicine

SYDNEY, 2012 Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Australia has cemented its place as a world leader in the integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with the latest high-level exchange launching in Sydney.

Speaking at the official launch of a medical exchange supported by the Song Qing Ling Foundation, China Eastern Airlines and the Bank of Communications, NSW State Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner told Xinhua on Monday that Australia remained at the forefront of medical research through government-to-government support and Australian University's institutionally progressive approach to TCM.
"Another thing that's positive is some of our universities are getting right on board this issue of complementary medicines, particularly the University of Western Sydney is doing a lot of work in this space. Here in Sydney we've got a really strong Chinese medical community as well - so we think that there's a lot of positive things happening and we want to work with the Chinese government and those practitioners to make good things happen," Mr Stoner said. 

The NSW Deputy Premier, Andrew Stoner, told Xinhua that Australians are right to embrace that philosophy.
"We'd be pretty dumb not to recognize the more than 5,000 years of practice in Chinese medicine,
I personally have experience where Chinese medicine has worked for me, so if we can put the best of the west and the best of the east together I think we can make some real inroads into people's health whether that' s here in Australia or in China."
The National Institute of Complementary Medicine (NICM) estimate that 2 in 3 Australians now use TCM each year and 42 percent do so to prevent or manage chronic conditions identified as national health priorities. 

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