Was reading about Wong Fei Hung today and his style of kung fu he was famous for. But he was also a physician doing TCM. Most of my knowledge of TCM is like acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbs and the like.
Does the CPC police this, not letting people get away with snake oil salesmen who say they can cure cancer with herbs. Or is it encouraged alongside western medicine?
I suppose I didn’t quite phrase it right. The point I’m trying to make is that the scientific process starts with “hmm that’s interesting” or “hmm I wonder about.” One way that a lot of modern medical science continues to grow is “hmm it’s interesting that people have done this thing for thousands of years, I wonder why.” Sometimes it leads to “wow, there’s something to that” and sometimes it leads to “actually that’s bogus” but throwing it all away just because it hasn’t been studied yet is wrong and isn’t how science works to begin with. I’m not saying that something definitely works simply because it hasn’t been studied, but until something that people have anecdotally done for thousands of years is properly studied, we don’t really know if there’s something to it or not. There is a lot behind cultural apocryphal knowledge, societies don’t typically don’t do things a certain way “just because.”
Hopefully this makes more sense.