Call For Paper

Congress Theme: “The Rise of Chinese Medicine and its Modern Development”

Contents of the Paper:

1. Fundamental theory of Chinese Medicine (CM)
   1. Innovations of basic Chinese Medicine theory
   2. Research of Four diagnostic techniques especially on pulse diagnosis
   3. Research of classic literature
2. CM Clinical Research
   1. Outstanding of CM clinical practice
   2. Summary of clinical experience from renown senior CM practitioners
   3. Clinical experience in treatment of severe, difficulty or chronic illnesses
   4. Clinical application of holistic concept and prevention view
3. Research of CM Herbs and Formulae
   1. Pharmacology of Chinese medicines
   2. Traditional CM herbal theory
   3. Raw herbs and herbal process
   4. New CM agents
   5. Interactions of Chinese medicines and drugs
4. Theory and Clinical Research of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
   1. Finding of channels and collaterals
   2. Contemporary research of acupuncture points (including specific and extra points)
   3. Integration of acupuncture and herbal medicine
   4. Clinical application of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
5. CM Education and Methodology
   1. Clinical evaluations of CM
   2. New module or innovation in aspect of Chinese medicine research
   3. New methods in clinical CM research
   4. CM education
6. Strategy and Prospect of CM Development
   1. Globalisation of Chinese Medicine
   2. Standardisation of CM
   3. Intellectual Property of Chinese medicine
   4. Promotion of CM in mainstream Western health care system
   5. Research on current practice of CM, developing trends, government policy making and change of CM system
   6. Development of CM in the 21st century

Requirements of Paper

1. Contents of paper must be informative and credible. Papers must not be previously published. Deadline for submission of papers is 31st August 2009;
2. Attendees’ paper will be published free of charge following acceptance of the paper by the peer-review committee of the congress;
3. Papers submitted by non-attendee will be required to pay AU $300.00 for submission fees before 15th September, 2009, following acceptance of the paper by the peer-review committee of the congress;
4. Two keynote speakers will be invited to give a 20 minute plenary presentation followed by 10 minutes of question time;
5. Submission of paper is limited to 3000 words, including 300 words for abstract, in both Chinese and English in print. Please email papers as an attached document in Word to the peer-review committee of the congress. Handwriting is not acceptable. If required, the peer-review committee reserves the right to edit the paper. For those who will present the paper on concurrent sessions, please provide PowerPoint slides (no more than 15 slides). All presentations are required to be 15 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for question time. Bilingual (Chinese via English) interpretation is available at the congress;
6. Papers will be published electronically and held in libraries in the following countries: USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand;
7. Please submit manuscripts to: or , Re: “Paper for the 6th WCCM 2009”