https://twitter.com/jenniferzeng97/status/1614811569724035072

  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Interesting side note, The doctors at the campus my family was living had us drink like half a pint of some herbal remedy every day that tasted like fucking patchouli but we never got sick. Not sure if that was the reason or not but I ended up taking a number of herbal remedies while I lived there and quite a few of them definitively helped. There’s still a couple things I pick up ever time I get to visit a decent china town. People how clown on herbal and eastern medicine are morons.

    I think the reason so many in the west oppose herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine is because we have no history or traditional medicine of our own since it was destroyed by the Catholic church during their persecution of paganism and witchcraft

    Because of that what passes for "alternative medicine" here in the west is a bunch of snake oil scam artist bullshit with no regulations whatsoever that you're even getting the snake oil they promised you

    • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      we have no history or traditional medicine of our own since it was destroyed by the Catholic church during their persecution of paganism and witchcraft

      Exactly that, and now people are conflating herbal medicine with crystal healers and homeopathy so things aren't really getting better. Which sucks cause there are some really useful plants out there.

    • regul [any]
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      2 years ago

      so many in the west oppose herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine

      I oppose it because it usually doesn't bear results when its clinically trialled.

      If it works, it should stand up to the scientific method.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      the lore can't be totally gone, where can we get in contact with an anthropologist who might know more?