Professional Institutions


Professional Register of Traditional Chinese Medicine (PRTCM)
Regulatory professional body for practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture. The objective of PRTCM is to help ensure that Acupuncture and other effective and traditional treatment methods of TCM are safely available to the public, by both representing and regulating practitioners of Acupuncture and TCM.

Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ICTCM)
The associated college of the PRTCM.

Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Sister college of Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

World Academic Society of Medical Qigong (WASMQ)
International organization to strengthen Medical Qigong interchange, its scientific research and promote the unity and cooperation among the Qigong organizations in the world, since 1988.

The World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies
A non-governmental international union of acupuncture-moxibustion societies with the formal relation with the World Health Organization (WHO). WFAS's objectives are to promotes understanding and cooperation among acupuncture-moxibustion groups throughout the world, to strengthen international academic exchanges, to develop the medical science of acupuncture-moxibustion, and to enhance the state and function of acupuncture-moxibustion in the health-keeping of the people of the world, thereby contributing to health of mankind.

Chinese Medicine Resources


US National Library of Medicine: Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Beijing, China)

The Journal of Chinese Medicine (U.K.)