Tour Features: This one day tour mainly intends for those who are interested in Chinese traditional medicine. By this tour, you will surely get some strong feeling and basic knowledge about Traditional Chinese Medicine. Also, our one day Chinese medicine tour will help you to get acquainted with some Chinese traditional medicine practitioners and pharmacists for your future life plan.
Day by Day Itinerary:
Day 1: Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Hutong, Tongrentang Pharmacy (-, L, -)
Pick you up from your hotel in the morning in Beijing around 9:00am. Then drive to one of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospitals in Beijing. You will be arranged to meet and talk to the professionals at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. They will make a brief introduction to the practices of acupuncture, Chinese herbology and massage to protect the health. Then they will take you to visit the outpatient department.
Afterwards, you visit one of the medical wards and see how the doctors treat the patients by using acupuncture. You will have some feeling from an excellent hands-on experience and a real immersion into an integrated Chinese hospital. Finally you are arranged to visit its pharmacy to see how people take the Chinese medicines.
After finishing the visit to the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, you will enjoy hutong, which is an ancient alley or lane typical in Beijing, formed the residential area in the Shichahai area and have lunch with the locals in their courtyard home.
After lunch, you proceed to visit one of the branches of Beijing Tongrentang Pharmacy. Beijing Tongrentang Pharmacy is a world-famous Chinese pharmacy and was first established in 1669. It was the designated brand of TCM for the royal court of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). Until now it has a history of over 300 years and has been continuing to expand till today. You will see how people taking Chinese medicines and checking up their health. One practitioner at Tongrentang will teach you some basic knowledge of Tui Na. Tui Na is a form of Chinese manipulative therapy often used in conjunction with acupuncture, moxibustion and cupping. Tui Na is an integral part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is taught in TCM schools as part of formal training in Chinese medicine schools. After learning Tui Na, you will have one hour free for enjoying foot massage at Beijing Tongrentang foot massage studio in Beijing Tongrentang Pharmacy. Return to your hotel in Beijing after your foot massage.
Itinerary: B: Breakfast AB: American Breakfast L: Lunch D: Dinner SD: Special Dinner
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