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Remember, the WHO recommends traditional Chinese medicine. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01726-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01726-
by cscurmudgeon 6y ago
Remember, the WHO recommends traditional Chinese medicine.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01726-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01726-1
Edit: downvoted for stating facts and linking to a Nature article? I guess HN has a soft spot for peddlers of pseudoscience and rhino boner pills as long as it their side politically.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7
This is where I draw the line.
- triceratops 6y agoThat's not what the article you linked says. It says the WHO includes the names of various ailments and diseases under traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). That's the not the same as recommending the use of TCM.
- cscurmudgeon 6y agoFalse. It says right in the article that they also include treatments and medicines. Does it do that for Ayurveda and other traditional treatments? Why not? I guess Nature is worried for an irrational reason? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7 Please don’t twist yourself batting for this nonsense.
- triceratops 6y ago> It says right in the article that they also include treatments and medicines Can you please paste the relevant quote from the article? Because I'm not seeing that. The part I looked at was: "In a statement on 4 April, it insisted that the TCM chapter does not discuss particular remedies. Rather, it is meant to give doctors the chance to diagnose patients using both TCM and Western medicine — what it calls “optional dual coding”. These categories “do not refer to — or endorse — any form of treatment”, the statement says."