The World Traditional Medicine Forum was established in September 2015 and registered in the Netherlands. The forum’s fundamental goal is to “unite traditional medicine professionals from around the world and comprehensively promote the development of traditional medicine.” It has brought together over 10,000 traditional medicine colleagues from more than 80 countries and regions on five continents, and has developed into an internationally influential organization in the field of traditional medicine.
The forum has held the 1st and 2nd World Traditional Medicine Conferences in Argentina and the United States, respectively. It also co-hosted the 3rd and 4th World Traditional Medicine Conferences (online) in 2021 and 2022, and the 5th Traditional Medicine Conference (Xiamen, China) in 2023 with the World Health Organization
FCPAAM was established since August 2001 in Kuala Lumpur. The purpose of forming this association was to assist and protect the interests of the local TCM practitioners within KL and Selangor states. Due to the overwhelming response and support from various parties, FCPAAM was then officially registered with the Registrar of Society Malaysia in January 12, 2002. Besides, it was honoured to receive the official registration from the Deputy Minister of The Home Ministry.
On the other hand, under the support from more than 10 affiliate associations from different states as well as thousands of TCM practitioners however, the FCPAAM officially passed the revised charter during the AGM on January 5, 2003 and was being upgraded to a nationwide organisation namely Federation of Chinese Physicians and Acupuncturists Association of Malaysia ( FCPAAM) and again was approved and certified by the Registrar on march 6, 2003.