You know, I had a long post typed, but decided not to post it because I simply do not want to get into this again. Get deeply into this when I first came to MT, not wanting to rehash it all
The article, IMO is mostly wrong, out dated and politically based. And I doubt the author did much of any research into what they were writing about
Example of error
ginseng is considered a cure for the common cold"
nope, it isn't, so yes studies will show it isn't because even TCM does not use it for a cure for the common cold. that statement is not only incorrect but shows a gross lack of understanding on how TCM looks at health issues
TCM does not work that way, if they had researched TCM the would know. TCM looks for a cause and fights the cause. And if you and I both came in with a cold, it is very likely we would not get the same treatment, since the causes can be different.
Per US military labs Covid was manufactured at Wuhan labs, not an animal to person transfer. Interesting that the article has a anti China feel but yet puts forth Chinese government propaganda on COVID
My wife is a TCM doctor from China, raised in China, graduate, the top of her class, from Beijing University of traditional Chinese medicine. In China she is an MD of TCM and a PhD and a doctor at Beijing Hospital. She does not use animal based herbal remedies.
The WHO has been supporting TCM for years and was sponsoring a program in Beijing Hospital, where my wife was the acting head if the acupuncture department, to train western MDs in acupuncture, she was also the lead teacher in this program over 20 years ago.
I will close with, when my wife first came here she said she felt bad for many training acupuncture in the USA. She felt they tried hard but they did not have access to the books she used in college. They are not translated into simplified Chinese, so there are no english editions. She also had to learn how to read traditional Chinese. Also in China, she had internships in a hospital and worked in a hospital. Also part of here training is in western medicine, TCM folks trained here do not have access to these thing. And to be honest, she is the best diagnostician I have ever seen. She has diagnosed many things I have had, our kids have had ,my mother, father, her mother, my aunts, uncles and cousins have had, before any of us went to the MD, And she was right.
Should also note, the number of credits required to get just a bachelors degree program in TCM at Beijing University of TCM, is considered the equivalent of a masters here, by what was immigration, now Homeland security
and even now, I am considering deleting this... I will likely regret this, but I am going to hit "post reply"
I will not respond further here, I will not get drawn into a flame war...so have at me... and have a nice day
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