"Individualized treatment is the traditional advantage of traditional Chinese medicine. If combined with genetic testing technology and accurate treatment, it can better achieve the effect of "treatment without treatment"." Canadian Chinese doctor Zhao Xiaolan recently participated in "2018 International Traditional Chinese Medicine" in Hefei, Anhui Province. The forum said to the China News Agency reporter.

The 2018 International Chinese Medicine Forum Key Forum and the Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Sub-Forum were held in Hefei, Anhui on the 11th and 12th respectively. Chinese medicine experts and Chinese medicine practitioners from China, Canada, Australia and other countries jointly discussed the internationalization of Chinese medicine and the academic issues of Chinese medicine acupuncture.

In the early 1980s, after graduating from medical school, Zhao Xiaolan worked as a surgeon at a hospital in Kunming, Yunnan. She was exposed to Western medicine and discovered the valuables of Chinese medicine. She began to study Chinese medicine.

"If you compare a person"s body to a car, if the car needs to be repaired, you can"t just use a pair of pliers, but use the entire toolbox." Zhao Xiaolan said that this "toolbox" should combine the advantages of Chinese and Western medicine, Western medicine. It is to see symptom treatment, and Chinese medicine pays attention to body conditioning.

She also said that in the face of modern diseases that cannot be treated, Chinese medicine cures “not sick”, highlighting its unique advantages, solving many medical problems that Western medicine cannot solve, and providing “Chinese prescriptions” for global health management.

Zhao Xiaolan opened a Chinese medicine clinic in Toronto after studying for a postgraduate degree in pharmacology in Canada. More than 80% of the patients admitted to the hospital were Westerners. Not only local residents, but also many patients came to see the disease from the United Kingdom and the United States. .

"Overseas, some Chinese medicine clinics are opened in the basement, or you can find a room at your own home. There is no formal medical environment, which is not conducive to being recognized by the mainstream society." In order to improve the conditions, Zhao Xiaolan started from the University of Toronto in 2005. A new health treatment center.

In response to the inconvenience of Chinese medicine in overseas, Zhao Xiaolan has made improvements in dispensing. She classifies and packages each patient"s Chinese medicine into bottles, making it easier for foreigners to accept Chinese medicine.

"Overseas practice requires a person to complete the entire process of diagnosis and treatment independently. Without the help of superior doctors and the support of other departments, it is a test of the level of diagnosis and treatment of Chinese medicine practitioners." Zhao Xiaolan said, "This urges me to persist in learning and keep learning. New scientific and technological knowledge, polishing technology in innovation."

She believes that the development of overseas Chinese medicine is also inseparable from the domestic soil. In recent years, Zhao Xiaolan has been seeking opportunities to communicate with the Chinese traditional Chinese medicine community, returning to China to participate in academic exchanges, and learning from old Chinese medicine practitioners who have been practicing medicine for many years, hoping to create opportunities for overseas communication of Chinese medicine.

In order to better promote Chinese medicine and let the essence of Chinese medical culture land overseas, Zhao Xiaolan wrote the Trilogy of TCM Health in English and translated it into 18 kinds of texts. In the book "Water Moonlight", she introduced the history of the formation of Chinese medicine and how Chinese doctors rely on their unique observations to form a different understanding of the human body from Western medicine.

"Chinese medicine needs to develop and prosper overseas. It needs to be guided by policies that are conducive to the local government. To help the government improve people"s health care, only a win-win strategic thinking can show the medical value of Chinese medicine and seize the development of overseas Chinese medicine. New opportunity." Zhao Xiaolan said.