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Museum of traditional medicine opens to tourists

About 3,000 valuable objects of Vietnamese traditional medicine are on display at a unique museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
About 3,000 valuable objects of Vietnamese traditional medicine are on display at a unique museum in Ho Chi Minh City.

The museum, called the Vietnam Museum of Traditional Medicine or FITO Museum, is run by the Fito Pharma Medicine Ltd Company.

Theexhibition area covers 600sqm in 24 rooms on five storeys. The upperstorey has a room for the worship of two forefathers of Vietnamesemedicine, Tue Tinh (1330-?) and Le Huu Trac (1720-1791). A model of anancient medicine house has been displayed at the museum, along withrecipes, tools for making herbal medicines, herbal containers and some2,500-year-old objects.

The museum also has a collection of woodcarvings of 100 physicians who lived between the 12th and the 20thcenturies. There is a collection of old books on traditional medicine inHan and Nom (Vietnamese ideographic characters transcribed from Chinesecharacters), written by various noted physicians.

Besides beingable to see how traditional medicine is made by curators, tourists canact as herbalists to feel the pulse of ‘patients', who are alsovisitors.

According to the company, the museum receives more than 100 tourists every day, many of whom are foreigners.-VNA
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