Chao Lu (Left), doctor of the Inner Mongolia International Mongolian Medicine Hospital, administers acupuncture needles to the face of a patient, with the assistance of a trainee, on Oct 22. The Inner Mongolia International Mongolian Medicine Hospital specializes in Mongolian medicine and its use, and is also a modern comprehensive hospital with branches of medical care, emergency, pharmaceutics, convalescence, prevention, hygiene, technological research, teaching, and training. [Photo/Xinhua]

Gui Qide, doctor of the Inner Mongolia International Mongolian Medicine Hospital, lights a cotton ball soaked with alcohol, puts the flaming cotton ball into a copper cup and then swiftly removes it, and finally places the cup on the skin of a patient on Oct 22. This traditional treatment is commonly referred to as “cupping”. As a part of Chinese traditional medicine, some Mongolian medicines were developed a thousand years ago, and were gradually shaped with the development of Mongolian ethnic nomads. Now the traditional techniques are still carried out, while some of these medicines have also been absorbed into modern medical regiments. [Photo/Xinhua]

Wen Hua, a Mongolian pharmacist of the Inner Mongolia International Mongolian Medicine Hospital, fills a prescription in the dispensary on Oct 22. The hospital has national-level Mongolian medicine labs, a research room for Mongolian medicinal herbs, cellular organism labs, and many others. It has also built cooperative relationships with the United States, Japan, India, Mongolia, along with national universities regarding traditional Chinese medicines. [Photo/Xinhua]