>(I'm personally skeptical of 中医 = Traditional Chinese Medicine, but am open to being convinced otherwise.) The "debate" is over traditional Chinese medicine c

>(I'm personally skeptical of 中医 = Traditional Chinese Medicine, but am open to being convinced otherwise.) The "debate" is over traditional Chinese medicine can be pretty frustrating, since in principle it's a very simple issue: did the ancient Chinese (or anyone else, really) stumble onto something that worked and was reproducible, even if they weren't able to properly articulate why it worked? A simple example ought to be the brewing of beer. Due to the need to sterilize and introduce yeast, one might imagine that a properly functioning germ theory was necessary for the brewing of beer. Of course, this was not the case, and people got quite far on trial and error.