The T.C.M. owes its actuality, in spite of its antiquity, to the fact that calligraphy is and was in China a Main Art, as Architecture or Sculpture are in Occident. This art was practised by remarkable Scientifics and experts so that nowadays we have at our disposal a written legate of an incalculable scientific importance that we can study now as well as in the past.

This science has been tested on million people throughout 5000 years. This long history, besides the universal unanswerable fact of its powerful, present importance –guaranteed by its spectacular popularity during the last 50 years-, gives it the prestige of being the most tested Technique through ages and between the broadest populations of the planet.

Great Emperors relied on it; such is the case of the Dynasties Sui (589-618) and Tang (618-907). This epoch means the arrival of a golden age for China, epoch characterised by a political stability which implies an increase to the economy, the art, the science and every kind of techniques. The bureaucracy was selected through written exams, allowing the Administration to be controlled by people with some erudition level.

The forensic medicine has an important development by the establishment of anthropomorphical cards and fingerprints taking, besides the beginning of forensic studies to determine death causes during investigations and favouring, that way, a big development in surgery.

The T.C.M. training became official and, from year 624, its training is appraised through official exams.

In 1924, and due to the purpose of Occidental Medicine, introduced in Chinese Universities and Hospitals from the last part of 19th century, to be the only one, supplanting, that way, the vast majority of the population demonstrated in the main capital-cities to defend the T.C.M. This fact meant the beginning of a new age to the relationship operating between both kinds of medicine. As a result, we have a present collaboration in which the Chinese population is the beneficiary protagonist.