Arriving in what were then poor, backward countries such as Nigeria, the Philippines and Indonesia with her Western training and modern medical equipment, she found to her surprise that "age-old local traditional medicine provided the most economical and practical means of care for most people." And this sparked her interest in studying traditional medicines round the world.
當她懷抱著西方醫學訓練及現代化醫療器材來到奈及利亞、菲律賓、印尼等當時處於貧窮、落後的國家後卻驚訝地發現，「當地流傳久遠的傳統醫學，才是真正能經濟又實用地照顧大多人民的醫療方式」，崔玖因此對世界各國的傳統醫學產生研究興趣。