Editorial

摘要

It is with pleasure that I write the guest editorial while the Editor-in-Chief, Dr Zheng, is on a well-earned academic sabbatical (including leave of editorship for this issue).It is just under one year ago that statutory registration for Chinese medicine was introduced across Australia. An essential aim of national registration is to improve the standard of knowledge and practice as a way to further safeguard the public from unethical and unsafe practices. To this end, journals such as this one and conferences such as the upcoming WFAS Sydney 2013, the 8th World Conference on Acupuncture, intend to upskill and improve professional knowledge. It is only by keeping up to date and informed that the registered Chinese medicine practitioner maintains scholarship and contributes to the development of the profession. Both papers in this issue emerge from such a space.