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    On the Bund and On the Mend

    Aug 05, 2021 4 minutes
    By Wei Hongchen

    She wears a white coat, speaks fluent Chinese and diagnoses patients with the assistance of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A German physician working at the Body and Soul Clinic in Shanghai’s Huangpu District, Doris Rathgeber, born in Düsseldorf in 1966, has been familiar with TCM for more than 20 years. She has practiced mainly in Shanghai and dedicates her professional life to promoting China’s centuries-old medical system around the globe.

    The ties of TCM

    For Rathgeber, her introduction to TCM was “preordained.”

    She came to Shanghai in 1995 when her husband started a business there, and studied Chinese for two and a half years in order to talk with

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