Flying the tcm flag

A small border town is home to Europe's flagship clinic for traditional Chinese medicine. Xu Jingxing and Guo Shuhan report.

Koetzting, a small mountain town of about 7,000 residents in Bavaria, southeast Germany, has become a household name in the past two decades, not only for its picturesque landscape but also for its clinic offering traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

TCM-Klinik Bad Koetzting is Germany's first TCM clinic and claims to have cured more than 25,000 German patients, applying a combination of TCM and Western medicine, according to Stefan Hager, its medical director.