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| At that time there was almost no pharmaceutical factory in China. The cost of Western medicine was expensive and there were few Western drugs available. Most of the hospitals of Western medicine were in big cities. The number of doctors of Western medicine and the production of Western drugs failed to meet the demand of 400 million Chinese people. In such a situation the Chinese people depended greatly on traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of diseases and health maintenance. |
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