The Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) today (November 28) held the 2025 Indigenous Traditional Medical Knowledge Revitalization Exhibition and Exchange at the Chientan Youth Activity Center in Taipei. The event brought together nearly 200 participants, including award recipients, instructors, community members, and representatives from Cultural Health Stations. Since its launch in 2020, the annual event has become a key platform for promoting the revitalization and transmission of indigenous traditional medical culture.

Pursuant to Article 14, Paragraph 1 of the Indigenous Peoples Health Act, the central competent authority is mandated to research and promote indigenous traditional medical and health knowledge to support the development of traditional medicine and healthy living among indigenous peoples. In parallel, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has advanced the Chinese Medicine Revitalization Plan (2022–2026) under the Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy Development Act, working in collaboration with the CIP to support related policy initiatives. The CIP has remained committed to building indigenous-centered health policies in alignment with these policy objectives and advancing the revitalization of traditional medical knowledge through diverse measures, ensuring that invaluable wisdom is preserved, sustained, and reintegrated into everyday life.

The event opened with a welcoming dance and blessings led by tribal elders. Minister Ljaucu·Zingrur of the CIP noted that indigenous traditional medicine—integrating plants, rituals, and holistic mind-body-spirit practices—embodies the wisdom of living in harmony with nature. However, much of this knowledge has faded amid social change. Through revitalization programs that document traditional practices and cultivate new generations of knowledge-bearers, the CIP hopes to reconnect younger generations with ancestral wisdom. The event also featured an award ceremony for the Indigenous Traditional Healing Rituals and Ethnobotanical Culture Audio-Visual Documentation Program. This year’s award-winning works captured food-based healing practices, shamanic rituals, and elders’ plant-gathering techniques, using visual media to preserve endangered forms of everyday knowledge and bring long-overlooked community memories back into public view.

Minister Ljaucu·Zingrur further emphasized that the CIP will continue advancing these initiatives by linking preservation, education, public engagement, and potential industry development. Through sustained collaboration with indigenous communities, the CIP aims to safeguard and revitalize this precious healing knowledge, ensuring that ancestral wisdom continues to support indigenous health, cultural continuity, and intergenerational transmission in contemporary life.