Puning Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 1960. It is a teaching hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a cooperative hospital of the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province. Now it has become a second-class first-class Chinese medicine hospital integrating Chinese medicine treatment, teaching and scientific research. 1 The hospital has more than 400 cadres and workers, more than 300 professional technicians, more than 30 senior titles and more than 90 intermediate titles. Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine employs professors and associate professors 12.