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speff | 1 month ago

Traditional Chinese Medicine and International Classification of Diseases - for people who didn't click the link

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pseudohadamard|1 month ago

TCM is mostly used by people in China too poor to afford standard medicine. If they've got the money, they go for non-TCM. That's all, nothing to do with the evil CCP bogeymen.

Nursie|1 month ago

While this seems true and may be true within China, the Chinese government does push for this to be accepted around the world by pressuring for its inclusion in WHO documents, and is trying to open up new markets for TCM “Pharma” in poorer nations.

I consider that quite evil as it’s not evidence based and undermines actually good, useful medicine. Just as I would/do consider anyone trying to increase take up of homeopathy in poorer parts of the world to be evil.

In the case of China and TCM there appear to be nationalist and financial motives.