The problem with TCM is that they don't accept what they don't know, they'll just make something up about "heat" or something. So while there are for sure real

The problem with TCM is that they don't accept what they don't know, they'll just make something up about "heat" or something. So while there are for sure real treatments that work, it's also lumped in with a bunch of other BS so you can't ever be sure it will work. That's the main difference between western and TCM. Western medicine we quite often know something works (because of double blind studies) but we don't always have an explanation. TCM is fundamentally untrustyworthy in the 21st century. And you can get placebos anywhere.