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After using TCM to fight disease in rural China, a Malian physician plans to
take the ancient healing science to Africa By Sudeshna Sarkar
When Diarra Boubacar started working with a There’s a big difference between
private hospital in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the
first week proved disconcerting for both the Malian doctor Western medicine and traditional
and his first patient.
For three days, not a single patient turned up. Then on Chinese medicine (TCM). The approach
the fourth, a stately matriarch opened the door, poked her
head in, and “ran away” after one look at him. to the human body and diseases is
“She went to the nurses plain,” Dr. Boubacar re- completely different.
called laughingly. “’I came to look for a Chinese doctor and
instead, found a black man sitting in the room,’ she told Dr. Diarra Boubacar, Malian doctor practicing TCM in China
the nurses. ‘But that’s our specialist,’ the nurses told her,
trying to calm her down. She was unconvinced and let me
treat her only after I promised I would refund her money if
she were dissatisfied with her treatment.” pletely different from the Western approach. TCM is
Nearly two decades after the incident, the 50-year-old also related to Chinese history and culture and to study it,
still remembers the disease he diagnosed her with - cer