Herbal remedies, cupping and Tai Chi: Inside China's £420bn traditional medicine market | ITV News
Herbal remedies, cupping and Tai Chi: Inside China's £420bn traditional medicine market | ITV News
For millions of people, particularly in China, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is viewed as safer and more reliable than modern medicines. From headaches to heart disease, practitioners of TCM claim they can treat almost anything and even prevent the need for surgery.
The practice has always been popular in its place of origin, but the pandemic has boosted public popularity.
From the start of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged doctors to use a combination of Chinese and Western care.
Several TCM drugs were hailed as a ‘Chinese solution’ to Covid-19, some had also been used in the SARS outbreak of 2003. The World Health Organisation (WHO) initially advised against their use in 2020, but later deleted that warning from their website.
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all this is just one sided narrative…be it climate deltas or species illimination.
humanity should prevail over greed.
TCM was created by Mao who did not utilize TCM but real ("western") medicine instead.
TCM is based on fake science and old, old views of how they thought the human body worked.They were wrong.
People get better but not for the reasons these "ancient" remedies claim. Just because something is old or ancient does not give it any more credibility. People love their ignorance and refuse to think for themselves and let pseudoscience b.s. take over their health care decisions. Got Steve Jobs pre-mature death, much?