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Administrative maintenance?

Why does Chinese government maintain TCM if it is a pseudoscience as an alternate medicine? So, it is neither a pseudoscience or an alternate medicine. 西城東路 (talk) 13:14, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Governments embrace fake science for all kinds of reasons (look at the present-day USA!). Following from the pre-scientific age and before evidence-based medicine, in China the historical reason from the 1950s on was to fool/pacify the populace when real medicine could not be provided (except for Party grandees of course). Mix in some nationalist irrationality and you have all the "why" you could want! This is covered quite well in the article. Bon courage (talk) 13:25, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mao realized that performing one effective anesthesia meant depriving a dozen people of their food. So, the cost of Western-style medicine was the deal breaker. Mao wasn't completely insane, so he knew he could not provide real medical care to close to a billion Chinese. tgeorgescu (talk) 21:25, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine Online Free

For free you can consult or download this basic and authoritative Handbook. There are 51 articles by established scholars on all aspects of traditional and modern Chinese medicine. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. ch (talk) 22:06, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I request to add an opposing viewpoint to Critiques. There is a phrase here that states the TCM has shown "no beneficial outcomes." ("A 2012 review of cost-effectiveness research for TCM found that studies had low levels of evidence, with no beneficial outcomes.") I believe this part could be seen debatable and it's important to let the viewers have access to opposing viewpoints as well so they can have a full picture of the TCM and develop their own informed opinions.

According to "The role of traditional medicine" (2000), Dr. Iwu, the president of the international Society of Ethnobiology, and Dr. Gbodossou, the founder of the Experimental Center for Traditional Medicine in Senegal, make the following assessment: "Biomedicine has often failed in conditions where behavioural, emotional, or spiritual factors have a dominant role in disease causation. It is in [these] conditions that traditional has made demonstrable contributions."

Citation: Iwu, Maurice M, and Erick Gbodossou. “The Role of Traditional Medicine.” Https://Www.Thelancet.Com/Journals/Lancet/Article/PIIS0140-6736(00)91989-5/Fulltext, The Lancet, 2000, www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(00)91989-5/fulltext. Jjunee2 (talk) 20:50, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not a request. No change - Walter Ego 21:09, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]