少子化、高齡社會、氣候變遷等因素交相作用的影響下,驅使各國政府專注於國民健康的促進,現代醫療界歷經三個世紀的叱吒風雲、與病毒長期纏鬥之後,治療觀念也由針對單一病灶趨向整體治療,最佳治療時機則由早期治療進化到預防醫學的領域,氣候變遷等環保意識的衝擊,也逐漸喚起現代醫學對傳統醫學及各種自然療法投以關注的眼光、正視其存在的價值。本研究根據情境分析法,對於新近整合成功的「中醫本草芳香療法」,評估中醫本草芳療的發展趨勢,發現在多重有利因素的推波助瀾之下,此一滿溢中華文化氣息、獨特創新的中醫本草芳療極有可能凌駕傳統芳香療法,成為21世紀預防醫學的流行寵兒,對人類疾病預防及健康維護發揮無比的影響力。
Affected by these factors of declining birth rate、aging society and climate change, forced many Countries in the world to pay much more attentions to people's health care. Whereas the temporary medicine, after continuously struggled with bacteria for more than three hundred years, becomes more interested in treating diseases in viewpoint of holistic instead of single and individual syndrome. And they also agree with the essay "the best way of curing illness is to prevent from it". In the meantime, the awareness of environment protection changes their neglect of natural therapies. The research adopts Scenario Analysis to evaluate the developing trend of TCM Aromatherapy successfully innovated recently. The research finds under the interactions of several factors, Western aromatherapy will be certainly overwhelmed by TCM aromatherapy in the near future. TCM aromatherapy will be prevailing throughout the whole world in the 21^(st) century, and affords important contribution to human's disease-curing and health maintenance.