Diarra Boubacar is a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor from Mali. He has been working in China for over 40 years, providing voluntary services in remote regions. He has also introduced TCM to his home country, and is now working on setting up a TCM hospital in Mali. We follow Doctor Diarra on one of his trips and chat to him about being a foreign TCM doctor and bridging cultures.
1. Serving patients, students a pleasure, keeps Diarra coming back to Luxian in southwestern China (3:44)
2. Acupuncture amazed young Diarra, convinced him to study TCM (13:33)
3. TCM builds immunity, prevents illness compared with Western medicine which kills virus after infection (14:35)
4. New project underway to open TCM hospital in Mali (21:48)