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consumers of chinese medicine should know that TCM means chinese medicines in the market. These chinese medicines also called as TCM have various ranges of traditional medical practices applied in China and in many nations. These chinese medicine are well accepted in consumers of East Asia and other countries of the world. mostly chinese medicine known as an alternative medical system in consumers across the globe. These chinese medicine helps in the treatment of herbal medicine, acupuncture, dietary therapy and also providing Tui na and Shiatsu massage to the consumers. Also chinese medicine practises are famous in the world such as Qigong and Taijiquan in many nations of the world.

Consumers should know that chinese medicine have the support of deep outlook of the nature, the cosmos, and the human body from ancient times. There are many theories prevalent about chinese medicine such as Yin-yang, five Phases, human body Channel system, Zang Fu organ theory, six confirmations, and four layers in the world. These chinese medicine took shape in 1950s under the shadow of People’s Republic of China and Mao Zedong in the world market. Consumers of chinese medicine believes that the life and activity of individual have deeper and intimate relation with the environment for protecting human body.  Read more...

Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture are first and foremost a preventive type of medicine. It is lack of information that makes people wait until it is to late to prevent disease. We are not in tune with our own bodies, and we pay dearly for it. I believe that the way Chinese medicine looks at health can help give us a better hold on the prevention aspects of Medicine. Chinese herbal medicine is one of the great herbal systems of the world, with an unbroken tradition going back to the 3rd century BC. Yet throughout its history it has continually developed in response to changing clinical conditions, and has been sustained by research into every aspect of its use. This process continues today with the development of modern medical diagnostic techniques and knowledge.  Read more...

The medicine terminals refer to the places where the consumers face the medicines directly, realize the exchange between currencies and medicines and the last step for the medicines to circulate from the manufacturers to the consumers. Among the various circulation steps, the medicine terminals are the place for the manufacturers to realize the medicine sales.

The definition of the third terminal market is different from the first terminal market and the second terminal market. The first terminal market refers to the medicine sales in the hospitals; the second terminal market refers to the medicine sales in the OTC market, and the third terminal market refers to the medical service centers in the city communities, the town and countryside hospitals, private clinics in the countryside and the small medicine stores etc.

The major distribution areas of the third terminal market of Chinese medicines are the countryside and the resident areas in some towns, such as the clinics in the communities and countryside, health rooms of the enterprises and schools, rural doctors and the individual stores. With the extension of the market, the concept of the third terminal market is also extended.

The major medicine form in the third terminal market is the common medicine at low and medium prices or the medicine at high price because of the advertisement costs. There is no fierce competition in the medicines of the third terminal market, which is mainly purchased by the clinics, health rooms and pharmacies. These medicines do not take part in the public biding, most of which are obtained in the medicine wholesales market. Although the procurement volumes are small in each time, yet most take the cash transaction and settlement, low in ventures.

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Oriental Medicine (OM) is a traditional Chinese medical practice that is based on the concept of balanced flow of energy through human bodies. Practiced for more than 2,500 years, it is one of the traditional forms of Chinese medicines that primarily include some of the traditional therapies like acupuncture, herbal medicine, and oriental massage. In fact, it is one of its kinds of medicine system that generally categorizes body patterns into the particular types of diagnoses with corresponding treatment plans.

For many years, this form of traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in many regions of China, Korea, Vietnam, Tibet and India, but in recent years the this medical theory and practice has even spread to other countries like England, France, Germany, and much of Middle and South America as well. It has gained worldwide recognition as an effective medical treatment. Adding to this, because of the pure weight of evidence, today this form of medicine has taken serious clinical approach of considerable value. Millions of Americans have turned to it, and many students are taking it as the new complementary treatment procedure and making a career as oriental medicine doctor.

An oriental or Chinese medicine doctor majorly uses healthcare therapies like acupuncture and moxibustion and  tries to find out the energy imbalance in a patient’s body and if diagnosed, treat it is through acupuncture cupping, needling, and other Chinese herbal remedies. Today it is counted among few alternative medicines that are completely free of side effects and deliver numerous benefits.  Read more...

by JKönig

Size Matters – The Global Pharmaceutical Market 

Pressure from the payers in developed markets with publicly funded healthcare plans to curb drug spending growth, patent expiries, the entry of lower-cost alternatives and declining growth rates in developed markets are major challenges the global pharmaceutical market faces. In addition, the pharmaceutical industry’s research and development programs have to adjust to the broad availability of low-cost generic options in many chronic therapy areas. Higher growth will occur in therapy areas with significant unmet clinical need, high-cost burden of disease, and innovative science that can bring new treatment options to patients.

IMS Health, an international consulting firm servicing the pharmaceutical industry, reports that the market reached a size of US7 billion in 2009. Whilst emerging markets are expected to grow at a 14 – 17 percent rate, developed markets will only grow by 3 – 6 percent. The U.S. will remain the single largest market, with 3 – 6 percent growth expected annually in the next five years and reaching US0 – US0 billion in 2014.

 China is not only assessed to become the world’s third-largest market in 2011, it also fuels the gross output of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) which has been growing at a pace faster than the average rate of the entire pharmaceutical industry. In 2008, the size of the TCM market was about US billion and the yields totaled 1.2 million tons. By November 2009, the cumulative sales value of the TCM industry increased by 23 percent and amounted to RMB 222.166 billion, approximately US billion.

Xinhua News Agency reported that in 2006 China exported traditional Chinese medicine to 164 countries and regions around the world, with export earnings reaching an all-time high of US0 million. The export earnings represented a 14.5 percent increase from the previous year.  Read more...