This issue of the Chinese Joumal of Integrative Medicine includes a discussion of integrative medicine (IM)from various perspectives.Dr.Andrew Weil provides a comprehensive overview of the field from the US and Western perspectives(1);doctors Dobos and Tao(2) delineate those aspects of Westem IM which relate directly to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM);doctors Lee,Shin,et al(3) provide a systematic review of controlled trials of IM from the Korean literature;and Dr.Robinson contrasts IM in the West (United Kingdom) with IM in China(4).Importantly,each of these articles highlights the extraordinary relevance of TCM to emerging models of “IM” worldwide.