Chinese medicine started to spread from the 16th century in England. Chinese medicine has won a trust of the royal family. Queen Elizabeth II takes Chinese herb perpetrates along to her trips.
Prince Charles emphasised in his speech (at the end of 2000) that the necessity to increase the governmental financing for the research of alternative medicine (News from The Journal of Chinese Medicine February 2001).
About one third out of UK families’ one adult is suffering from back pain, and at least two adult from the quarter are suffering from back pain. UK spends every year about £ 6, 3 thousand million to treat back pain and sciatica. These particulars were submitted in the conference arranged by Prince of Wales´s Foundation, where the main topic was alternative medicine as a treatment. During the conferenced they called first level medicine workers up to use more alternative medicine when the pain occurs, especially when normal treatment do not give results, or they do have strong side-effects and when the patients agrees. In 2001 49% of the first level medical practices offered alternative medicine, it is 9% more than in year 1995 (BMJ 2003; 327:1368).
To compare with US, according the research arranged by Duke University Medical Centre, US spend over $ 90 thousand million to treat back pain, in 1998, from which $ 26 thousand million was the treatment cost. This year 25, 9 million Americans said that they are suffering from back pain. From $ 90 thousand million 1% is US GDP (News from The Journal of Chinese Medicine February 2004).
Prince Charles asked in the speech of WHO to start using more alternative medicine, when treating chronical and strong diseases, like as chiropractic, acupuncture and herbs. Also he was trying to convince them not to use that much normal medicine which is based on drugs and he emphasised pay more attention to diet and healthy lifestyle, necessity to reduce environmental pollutedness and using less toxic chemicals at home and in agriculture.
In his previous speech in Royal Medical association Prince Charles said: ´´Human´s body is very often technically divided into separate pieces and during the treatment human is not handled as consistent… We need to impose the best contemporary science and technology, but the price cannot be best what we have to offer, alternative Chinese medicine.
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