The 3-day Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) exhibition exposed Friday within the Flower Garden Hirschstetten in Vienna, using the aim to introduce traditional Chinese medicine for the Austrians also to arouse their interest in the culture of Chinese medicine.

Holding for the 2nd time, the exhibition in 2011 get drawn more visitors to take part in the health speaks on traditional Chinese medicine, read or even buy books round the style of traditional Chinese medicine. Quite a few visitors with excitement tried Chinese diet therapy made by the organizers.

In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine may be frequently recognized and accepted in Austria. It’s got currently not just entered into the classroom and also to the hospital and clinic.

Some private health care insurance businesses in Austria have learned to include the treatment by traditional Chinese medicine into their insuring categories. Chinese patent drugs are already for sale in many pharmacies in Austria.

However in common, traditional Chinese medicine still faces many limits in Austria, that has not been included to the public health insurance system. Some Austrians continue to have doubts of Chinese medicine, in particular the medicinal herb drugs. Most of these have restricted the introduction of traditional Chinese medicine here.

Currently, main clinics of traditional Chinese medicine do only acupuncture and moxibustion, massage along with other health-care physical rehabilitation.

Richard Schmerker, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in Austria, told journalists that the development of traditional Chinese medicine here still faces tourist challenges and the biggest one is the shortage of efficient propaganda and popularization.

Although he expressed his full confidence about the future of traditional Chinese medicine in Austria. He said, the individuality of finding the real cause of diseases and laying the axe to the root could make or not it’s accepted by more and more Austrians.