title: Traditional Tibetan medicine in China: an overview of current status and prospects.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To introduce and explore the current status and prospects of traditional Tibetan medicine (TTM) in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  Government websites, national statistics, and authoritative papers from journal and government daily were fully searched. Further data were gathered by related experts.
  
  
  RESULTS
  With the implementation of policies on growing TTM, there have been improvements in TTM's health care, scientific research, education, and pharmacy industry. TTM hospitals contribute to the health service system in Tibet Autonomous Region and other four Tibetan regions; TTM education has been incorporated into national education system in China; the number of scientific researches on TTM funded by the government is increasing year by year; Tibetan medicines become available to more people with the development of TTM pharmacy industry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  TTM is well preserved and developed in China, and more efforts should be taken to promote its spread and development.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Traditional Tibetan Medicine, China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing, 100101, China, luohui09@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004345:Drug Industry; D006801:Humans; D038861:Medicine, Tibetan Traditional / Q000639:trends*; D057766:Policy; D011642:Publications