<<@Vict0r1984
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TCM is all pseudoscience based on wrong confucian assumptions, and it frustrates ne how few people actually have the courage to say it. The concepts of Yin and Yang are made up philosophical bullshit, (that actually enabled a lot of sexist historical practices and oppression of women) and so is ancient Chinese medicine, with its nonexistent “meridians” and “qi”. Fun fact - do you know how in Chinese novels like Dream of the Red Chamber or palace dramas doctors always take one's pulse to instantly diagnose patients? Yeah, that's because Chinese Traditional Medicine used to be just as backward and idiotic as European traditional medicine was, and its theory did not understand the concept of “diseases”, "viruses" or even what a pulse is! They thought the “pulse” is actually the rhythm of Qi flowing through your body's meridians, (not merely your heart pumping blood) and that any illness is actually a blockage of this qi flow caused by an “imbalance” of energies in the patient. Normally someone's pulse is completely unaffected and irrelevant for a lot of diseases, as you are probably well aware as a person living in the modern age, (a cold or, say, having diabetes, won't affect your pulse...) but practitioners of TCM thought it's related to every single possible condition as they did not have a concept of diseases, did not know what they were even listening to when taking pulses, and always assumed any sickness is caused by a blockage in Qi flow! In short, they had no idea what they were doing, (just like European pre-scientific doctors) but because China has a culture of face and ancestor worship nobody dared criticize or expose the frauds that were the medical elders before Maoists finally did it! Modern TCM tends to be less superstitious and more complementary to real medicine, but it's underlying foundations still lie in the pseudoscientific Confucian old medical practices of Imperial China. That's it - that's all there is to it! TCM is all a massive fraud, one that has fooled a culture for millennia with massive bodies of academic-sounding theories, complex (but fictitious) patterns, associations and placebo effects, to the point that some modern Chinese still believe it has merit, and those that realise it's all wrong probably more often than not avoid confronting the believers out of cultural conflict aversion or just peer pressure. Mind you, I am a European but I did read 2 of the 4 great classical novels of Chinese literature, (plus some modern Xianxia and Wuxia webnovels as light reading) speak some basic Mandarin, watch Chinese series, I am even a socialist and support Chinese hegemony over the more imperialistic American one, so this is not some racist attack on Chinese culture - I love a lot of aspects of Chinese culture, but especially because of that, as an atheist and dialectical materialist, it infuriates me how many hard-working Chinese people buy into the spiritualistic sham that is TCM and lose their hard-earned money for no benefit buying drugs prescribed by these crooks! (hence the rant above) The west also has its own pseudoscientific “alternative medicine” like homeopathy, and those are just as bad. If you are Chinese and my answer upset you, please just think why? Why does it upset you that someone insults traditional Chinese medicine? Do you believe in Yin and Yang and meridians, and that diseases (viral or bacterial infections) don't exist, that all illnesses can be detected from pulse and that said pulse is not even the blood pumped by the heart through your veins and arteries? Have you ever seen any evidence that TCM works that could not conceivably be just placebo or the patient's immune system or modern medicine instead? Essentially, why do you truly believe it works? If you ask yourself these questions I am already happy. You can answer my post if you want to debate my position and I promise I will answer back respectfully!
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