Legal Thinking on the Participation of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Public Health Emergencies

• Author: Xinghua Chen
• Position: Ph.D., Associate Professor, North China University of Technology (Beijing, China)
• Pages: 6-14

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 6, 2020

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Legal Thinking on the Participation

of Traditional Chinese Medicine

in Public Health Emergencies

Xinghua Chen1

Ph.D., Associate Professor, North China University of Technology

(Beijing, China)

E-mail: xinghuachen@126.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1189-7784

Chen, Xinghua (2020) Legal Thinking on the Participation of Traditional Chinese Medicine in

Public Health Emergencies. Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 6, 6-14. https://doi.org/10.29202/

up/6/1

The healing eect of traditional Chinese medicine in the epidemic situation with COVID-19 is

increasingly conrmed. In a medical system dominated by Western medicine, it is necessary to overcome

many obstacles to the participation of traditional Chinese medicine in responding to public health

emergencies. This includes (a) natural institutional diculties; (b) insucient regulatory ability of

traditional Chinese medicine and lack of provisions Traditional Chinese emergency medicine of the

public health legal system; (c) the lack of a rational understanding of traditional medicine by the

population; and (d) the dilemma of the practice of traditional Chinese doctors. To fully appreciate the

role of traditional Chinese medicine in responding to public health emergencies, it is necessary (a) to

improve the relevant public health emergency laws; (b) improve the status of local branches of traditional

Chinese medicine; (c) strengthen advocacy for the development of traditional Chinese medicine; (d)

expand the areas of traditional Chinese medicine in public health emergency management, as well as the

openness of traditional Chinese traditional medicine in public health emergencies.

Keywords: traditional chinese medicine, public health emergencies, COVID-19, emergency legal

system

Received: May 12, 2020; accepted: June 1, 2020

© Chen, Xinghua, 2020