Discussion to the Definition and Classification of Complementary Therapies in MeSH / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

MeSH is a controlled vocabulary developed by U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed or building search strategies for medical literatta-e retrieval. MeSH terminology provides information on how TCM being understood and accepted by western medicine, with the time when the terms added in, the scope notes, and hierarchical structure of terms in the category of Complementary Therapies. This article thoroughly discussed the definition and classification of complementary therapies in MESH.