I don't think that's entirely fair, the "barefoot doctors" of rural China use both Western medicine and TCM[1]. And while acupuncture has somewhat ambiguous res

I don't think that's entirely fair, the "barefoot doctors" of rural China use both Western medicine and TCM[1]. And while acupuncture has somewhat ambiguous research around it, it's clear that plenty of herbs contain compounds which are medically useful (and that's true for Western/modern pharmaceuticals from aspirin to Tamoxifen). And of course Berberine[2] has generated lots of other interest recently. 1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12259447/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12259447/ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberine#Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberine#Research