In the past decade, the worldwide adoption of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Acupuncture started gaining popularity not only in prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental health disorders, but also including health cultivations and lifestyle transformations. Many researches and clinical studies demonstrated the medicine’s efficacies and benefits, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Many studies are needed to unfold the underling mechanisms behind Traditional Chinese Medicine and much more work are required to promote the medicine's applications benefiting Canada and around the world. Thus, in 2021, both Home of Canadian Traditional Chinese Medicine Society (HCTCMS, hctcms.ca) and the Canadian Community Service Association (CCSA, canada-ccsa.com) co-hosted the First World Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture Week between July 24th to July 30th, 2021. With the aspiration to establish a platform, not only for TCM practitioners to exchange knowledge, but, more importantly, to share TCM perspective of healing and to bring a beacon of optimism to the World in the midst of COVID pandemic. The event was hosted mostly online, with more than 60+ TCM practitioners around the world participating in online presentations throughout the week.
2024 4th World TCM & Acupuncture Week has ended. We will see you in 2025.
With successful introduction of the event, both HCTCMS and CCSA teamed up again to organize the 2nd World Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture Week in the following year. In 2022, because the pandemic restrictions had been lifted to allow outdoor gathering, free consultation clinic at Chinese Cultural Heritage Festival in Burnaby, Canada, was also added to the weeklong event. Total 50+ MD physicians and TCM practitioners volunteered in the free consultation clinic, servicing 10,000+ spectators in the festivity. The official establishment for Canadian Traditional Chinese Medicine Development Alliance (CTCMDA, ctcmda.ca) was also announced in the event, marking the official alliance of community organizations, medical groups, and TCM associations to promote broader adaptation of Traditional Chinese Medicine to support and to offload scarce healthcare resources in Canada in this post pandemic era.
In the year 2023, the organizing committee invited Dr. Michelle Lau, the chair of American Alliance of Acupuncture to celebrate the Third World TCM & Acupuncture Week. Because of the consecutive success in this annual TCM event, the government of BC proclaimed June 18 to 24, 2023 as “Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists Week”. With such great honor and endorsement, both CTCMDA and HCTCMS have teamed up to co-organize this year’s 4th World Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture Week.
This year's ten-day event will include the opening ceremony, the announcement of newly published Journal of World Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture, the TCM technical conference, the TCM & Acupuncture demonstration and free consultation clinic, and with round table discussions on topics related to advancing of TCM profession development in BC and to establishing collaboration framework between TCM practitioners and Western Medicine physicians. The invited guest speakers include China’s TCM grandmasters and their teams of TCM experts, renowned TCM experts and scholars across the world, and accomplished TCM practitioners within Canada. The TCM demonstration and free consultation clinic is open to the public, free admission, and welcoming to all age groups to experience. We expect this year’s event to have even greater success.
This invitation extends to guests from all three-level of Canadian governments, consulates, major associations, cultural groups, educational institutions, industries, media, and, of course, available online to everyone across the world. We welcome you to join us to witness, to participate, and to celebrate together in this annual TCM celebration.
