Ancient (BCE-40 CE)

The Gregorian Calendar was proclaimed in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.
No century year is a leap year unless it is exactly divisible by 400, e.g. 1600, 2000.
A leap second has been added to the national time scale at midnight 31 December 1995. The "Greenwich" time signal to mark the transition between 1995 and 1996 will contain six short pips instead of the usual five before the start of the long pip which marks the hour. The decision to change the time was made by Paris's International Earth Rotation Services. The end 1995 leap second will be the 29th since Coordinated Universal Time began in 1972.

Built by a native American culture or a migrant European population? No one knows for sure.  A maze of man-made chambers, walls and ceremonial meeting places, America's Stonehenge is one of the oldest man-made construction in the United States. (over 4000 years old). 

Visiting a Chinese pharmacy in the Republic of China is much like being inside a miniature museum of natural science. Tucked away in row after row of tidy drawers are animal, plant, and mineral products, each with a particular purpose. Among the assortment of curiosities are cinnabar and amber, to relax the nerves; peach pits and safflower, to improve blood circulation; bear's gall to relieve pain and tranquilize; Chinese ephedra ( mahuang) to induce perspiration; and ginseng to strengthen cardiac function.

Since the AKOM was founded as a corporation aggregate by a medical law In 1952 December, it has bacome a big organization with about 10 thousand members in 2000 February. it is now the foothold for proving the superiority of oriental medical study.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a system of healing based upon the Chinese philosophy of the correspondence between Nature (Tao) and human beings. The principle of microcosm-macrocosm is based upon the observation of several thousand years that Nature has a vital effect upon the health of people. Another fundamental principle is that of Yin and Yang, the two basic complementary energies of Nature. All of the manifestations of nature are thought to be composed of a specific balance of these two forces. Health is also thought to be due to the appropriate balance of yin and yang in the body.

Tiger Balm owes its origins to a soothing herbal balm prepared for Chinese emperors who had suffered from various aches and pains.

Traditional Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years. Its use spread throughout the Han society, with different treatment systems developed for the noble, peasant, worker and merchant classes .Chinese medicine reflects Han history, culture and use of natural resources, and is unique in theory and methods.

Pien Chi'ao [Bian Que] - The most ancient of the physicians from the historical period (ca. 500 B.C.). He was reputed to be an excellent diagnostician, excelling in pulse taking and acupuncture therapy

Ethnic people around the world developed their own drugs to fight against the diseases by hit andtrail methods based on their experiences and passed the knowledge from generation to generation.Their knowledge on medicine is called as Ethnomedicine.The long experiences of various ethnic groups in the early human civilization helped to develop a complete system of medicine known as The Traditional medicine. The traditional Chinese Medicine,The Traditional Indian Medicine (Ayurvedic
system of medicine),The Unani medicine, etc. are among such examples

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