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Renewed global attention to TCIM, including at the Second Global Summit on Traditional Medicine held in New Delhi in December 2025, has intensified calls for approaches that are safe, effective, equitable, and culturally respectful.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This commentary examines the principal challenges that must be addressed if TCIM is to be integrated safely and equitably into health systems, with particular attention to evidence generation, regulation, commercialisation, misinformation, Indigenous knowledge governance, and models of health\u2010system integration.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We undertook a policy\u2010oriented narrative review informed by an interpretive reading of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025\u20132034 and related governance frameworks, including the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol. We then conducted iterative, non\u2010systematic searches across major bibliographic databases and policy sources to identify literature and examples relevant to five core domains shaping TCIM integration: evidence and economics, regulation, commercial exploitation, misinformation, and Indigenous knowledge.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Main findings and conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Integrating TCIM into health systems requires more than evidence of clinical effectiveness alone. Progress depends on methodological approaches capable of assessing complex and context\u2010dependent interventions; stronger regulatory and pharmacovigilance systems; safeguards against misleading commercial claims and digital misinformation; and, crucially, Indigenous leadership in the governance, protection, and co\u2010production of knowledge, so that benefit\u2010sharing and research priority\u2010setting rest on community authority rather than consultation alone. Integration should be understood as a spectrum, from coexistence and referral to co\u2010location and fully blended models, with implementation shaped by local health\u2010system capacity and patterns of real\u2010world use. 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