By Liu, Willow
Source Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
The World Health Assembly endorsed the revised International Classification of Diseases (ICD) at its 72nd meeting in 2019 and the revisions came into effect globally on January 1, 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) included a chapter for the first time in the 11th Revision of the ICD that discussed traditional Chinese medicines (TCM)[1]. Including TCM in ICD-11 recognizes TCM for its past contribution to world healthcare and acknowledges the current need for TCM in the world health framework.