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For over 2,000 years, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have diagnosed patients by reading pulses and examining tongues—subjective skills that take decades to master. Now AI systems are doing it in under two minutes. Robots perform acupuncture, machine learning models classify patients by constitutional type, and chatbots trained on classical medical texts dispense herbal recommendations. China has poured 22 billion yuan ($3 billion) into TCM research platforms and aims to deploy AI-assisted diagnosis across village clinics nationwide by 2030.

Updated Feb 1