Chinese medicine : Visionary review about traditional Chinese medicine in the light of the current scientific knowledge

In the middle of the 21st century, we experienced an aggravating crisis in the area of health. The current panorama of socio-economic crisis, together with a society increasingly dedicated to work, neglecting leisure time and essential physiological needs for health, such as sleep and a balanced diet, provided a growing health crisis, with the exacerbation of situations such as poor nutrition, degenerative diseases and cancer, new epidemics and diseases of the forum mental as the depression, the anxiety and the stress. According to the World Health Organization , "enjoying the best possible health status is one of the fundamental rights of all human beings" . However, health care provided to citizens often fails to respond to the demands of an increasingly informed society, which seeks alternative and more effective methods of healing, and which, at the same time, overcomes the invasive and chemical component of the procedures. and Western Medicine compounds. This search is aimed not only at a search for innovative and developing methods , but also a return to a more ancestral and even spiritual medicine , where man and his mental well-being are at the center of concerns again. To this end, Traditional Medicines should not be put aside, but integrated into modern OM, which although with great scientific advances, finds itself side by side with a great use of TM both in developing countries and in each country. increasingly in developed countries. Thus, knowledge of traditional medicines can be applied as complementary therapies in conventional medicine, in the light of knowledge doctor, then passing to be designated as therapies complementary.