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> chinese medicine usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials as well. You gotta be kidding me! Do you really believe that? Traditional Chinese

by aestra 13y ago

> chinese medicine usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials as well. You gotta be kidding me! Do you really believe that? Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on an incorrect understanding of the body and an incorrect disease model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine >With an eye to the enormous Chinese market, pharmaceutical companies have explored the potential for creating new drugs from traditional remedies.[126] Successful results have however been scarce: a 2007 editorial in Nature said that while this may simply be because TCM is largely irrational pseudoscience, advocates have argued that it is because research had missed some key features of TCM, such as the subtle interrelationships between ingredients.[126] http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/acu.html http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/acu.html I am not saying there might be merit in some of the practices, however to say "usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials" is incorrect.

ekianjo 13y ago
Oh, I was not talking about the principles of Chinese Medicine itself, more about the plants they actually used. I know several of them have been put in clinical trials contexts, and while some did fail, several of them showed actual efficacy as medicines.
- SimHacker 13y ago
  Stopped clocks put in clinical trial contexts have been shown to occasionally tell the actual time, too. Mercury sulfide, asbestos ore and lead oxide might give you an erection thanks to the placebo effect, but pornography has been proven to be much more effective with fewer side effects, and can be delivered efficiently over the internet.
- aestra 13y ago
  The amount of failures eclipses the amount of successes by a lot. I didn't say we shouldn't still study them, but the idea they are "pretty good usually" is false.

by aestra 13y ago

ekianjo 13y ago

Oh, I was not talking about the principles of Chinese Medicine itself, more about the plants they actually used. I know several of them have been put in clinical trials contexts, and while some did fail, several of them showed actual efficacy as medicines.

SimHacker 13y ago
Stopped clocks put in clinical trial contexts have been shown to occasionally tell the actual time, too. Mercury sulfide, asbestos ore and lead oxide might give you an erection thanks to the placebo effect, but pornography has been proven to be much more effective with fewer side effects, and can be delivered efficiently over the internet.
aestra 13y ago
The amount of failures eclipses the amount of successes by a lot. I didn't say we shouldn't still study them, but the idea they are "pretty good usually" is false.