Museum depicts the long history of Chinese healing

From a venue for professional exchanges to popular tourist destination, Yushengtang Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum in Beijing has witnessed the spreading popularity of traditional Chinese medicine overseas.

Over the past 10 years, Bai Yang, the museum curator, has communicated with foreign scholars and physicians, especially from Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries. But after 2008, there was a sharp rise in the number of Western tourists interested in TCM.

"All of sudden, our museum was filled with tourists from the United States, Germany and even Israel," said Bai, 51, a native Beijing resident. "Most of them had no background in the field, but had great curiosity. They all listened to our guide's speech very carefully and took notes."