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You have this picture of chinese medicine as doing voodoo activities such as the belief of taking certain herbs will cure diseases. While that may be part of c
by meric 14y ago
You have this picture of chinese medicine as doing voodoo activities such as the belief of taking certain herbs will cure diseases.
While that may be part of chinese medicine it is not all of it.
For example, when you break your arm, there are traditional chinese medicine techniques that work on the same principles of putting a cast on your arm.
Of course, now that we're in the 21st century, 2000 year old techniques for healing a broken arm may not be as effective, but it is wrong to simply declare all of chinese medicine to be "something that works with no underlying understanding".
- yen223 14y agoChinese medicine doesn't even have a concept of microorganisms, or cells -- things which we now know are pretty fundamental to knowing how a human body works. When you say it is wrong to simply declare all of Chinese medicine to be "something that works with no underlying understanding", you are correct -- that statement implies that Chinese medicine works.
- lobster_johnson 14y agoYou just gave a great explanation how Chinese medicine has no underlying understanding: It has techniques for mending a broken arm, but not the scientific underpinnings to explain why it works. Traditional Chinese medicine does not have an understanding of bone knitting, nor does it identify what infection really is. Without a scientific framework, it's all cargo-cult medicine, doing things that sort of work (sometimes) without really knowing why.