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Discuss how "traditional" Chinese medicine has "gone global." How and when did Chinese medical practices become more widespread in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world?

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Traditional Chinese medicine is a set of pseudoscientific popular beliefs on which a kind of medical tradition has been established, by which certain practices are carried out to improve the health of individuals. Thus, practices such as acupuncture, the administration of herbs, etc., are used to restore the health of people according to the tradition started in China hundreds of years ago.

With the demographic explosion of China and the exodus of millions of people of this nationality to other parts of the world, traditional Chinese medicine has acquired a much larger territorial expansion than it had at first. Thus, practices such as acupuncture or concepts such as the balance between Yin and Yang have become widespread in the Western world, as the Chinese population has settled in Western nations.

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