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If alternative medicine actually worked beyond anecdotes it would just be called medicine.

• fma 8y ago
  If you go to a hospital in China, you'll see it's based on Western medicine. But you will see a department for traditional Chinese medicine, or at least aspects of it that have been verified through research. Researchers take TCM and study it scientifically, which is how the cure for Malaria was found when Chinese scientists looked through 1600 year old literature. But it's unlikely much of that kind of medicine will reach the US based on how it's packaged and who makes the money. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/chinese-herbal-therapy-malaria-wins-part-nobel-prize-medicine https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/chinese-herbal-therapy-...
• shoo 8y ago
  ...if this quote is unfamiliar to anyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
• gwn7 8y ago
  This is exactly the kind of comment I did not ask for. If you have an anecdote yourself please share. I'm not suggesting that it works beyond anecdotes, nor the opposite.
  • ryandvm 8y ago
    With respect, that's kind of the thing about forums - you don't get to control the commentary.
    • gwn7 8y ago
      I have no problem with that, nor am I trying to control the commentary. But I have a right to criticize too, have I not? This can be seen as my humble attempt to moderate the discussion; to point the commenter to the direction of the original question. (S)he doesn't have to comply and I'm fine with that. Sorry if my tone bothered you.