Sources
Last revised:
The facts on this page can be checked in the sources below. If you find an error, please let us know.
- Nobel Prize 2015 – Physiology or Medicine (press release)
Tu Youyou, artemisinin; return to ancient texts when searching for the active compound.
- WHO – ICD-11: Traditional medicine conditions
Optional supplementary chapter; not for mortality reporting and not an endorsement of efficacy.
- WHO – ICD-11 adopted by the World Health Assembly (May 2019)
ICD-11 in effect from 1 Jan 2022.
- WHO – Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014–2023
- Wikipedia – Traditional Chinese medicine
Overview of history, standardisation in the PRC and critical scientific assessment, with links to primary sources.
Recommended reading (for practitioners and the curious)
- Giovanni Maciocia – Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine
Tongue diagnosis.
- Giovanni Maciocia – The Foundations of Chinese Medicine
Basic concepts and patterns.
- Jake Fratkin – Chinese Herbal Patent Formulas
Herbal formulas, for practitioners.
- Jake Fratkin – Essential Chinese Formulas
Herbal formulas, for practitioners.