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Well if you look at it as a health care system with no oversight (Chinese and Indian), you’re going to get a lot of charlatans that peddle and make claims about
by huytersd 3y ago
Well if you look at it as a health care system with no oversight (Chinese and Indian), you’re going to get a lot of charlatans that peddle and make claims about anything. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t a lot of useful information that has filtered down through pure practice and error over two or three millenia of continuous use. It’s the perfect opportunity for the synthesis of rigorous science and time tried remedies.
- onetimeuse92304 3y agoOf course we know there is a lot of potentially useful knowledge that came through practice over thousands of years. As I said, it is not useful to be right about things when you are also wrong a lot and you can't tell which things are wrong and which are right. Science gives us a way to sort wrong from right. Traditional medicine takes millenia of observation to arrive at simplest things that then can be easily forgotten or misused. Our "regular" medicine might be wrong a lot and sometimes might even be taking steps back. But overall it is moving in the right direction at a truly lightning speed. It only seem slow to us because of our impatience but, objectively, it has done gigantic progress within just one generation. Personally the more pressing matter is figuring out a way to make the state of the art medicine available to everybody.