>The entire Eastern system of medicine evolved based on shared experience and knowledge, and ample experience exists with many supplements to support their use.

>The entire Eastern system of medicine evolved based on shared experience and knowledge, and ample experience exists with many supplements to support their use... Oh -- you don't tell me the entire Western system of medicine evolved isn't based on shared experience and knowledge! The difference is the Western system has a systematic way of filtering noises from anecdotal experiences. It's called science: One of the most important pillars is reproducibility. You need to know what the chances that something will work, how statistically significant the result of the method you propose is. Any of the ideas such as "eating roots and leaves," "expose it to X-rays," "pray to the Gods," "spit on it," "take supplements," "open it up and cut it with a sterile knife," "drinking rhino horn powder," method, at the beginning, can equally seem like great ideas -- and we should test them all. But so far, some of the "take supplements" routes, as pointed out by the article, don't work way too well. The Eastern system, in general, doesn't work too well either. If it did, Eastern people with cancer wouldn't have to go through chemo.