Journey to the West

Journey to the West traces Chinese Medicines journey to the UK and explores the challenges of establishing legitimacy and developing recognition when the dominant culture is against you This documentary introduces Chinese Medicines understanding of health and illness as a platform from which to explore a catch 22 at the heart of the professions struggle for acceptance status as part of UK healthcare can only be gained through evidencebased medicine but those methods of research are designed to serve Western constructs of medicine and science not a medical system from a different world view