Quackery based upon sympathetic magic usually involving the wanton killing of innocents or endangered species.
I don't want to have to explain to my daughter one day that there are no more Tigers or Rhinos in the wild because Chinese men couldn't maintain an erection.
And a big laugh to anyone who thinks getting poked with needles is some sort of magical cure-all. As if the medieval Chinese knew f*ckall about anything.
This is the lowest, foulest and most obscene lie about Traditional Chinese Medicine I've ever read, anywhere. To compare this vileness with TCM is like comparing Dr. Mengele's tortures at Auchwitz to Western Medicine.
But you do show how utterly corrupt, mostly useless and incredibly harmful Western Medicine has become (except for it's trauma care and surgery), when it has to resort to such incredibly shameful and ignorant slander. Maybe if it got back to its roots and started actually helping people, instead of prostituting itself as a mere front for pharmaceutical companies, millions of people wouldn't be leaving it in disgust, and it wouldn't have to hire shameless, conscienceless shills like you to spew lies for it.
Hear hear. I boil with rage when I see “traditional Chinese medicine” being touted as “an alternative” to “Western” (i.e. real) health care, and even more so when I find that my health insurance policy covers it (including acupuncture).
I believe their “medicinal theory” of “balance” and “energy flow” and all that mumbo-jumbo evolved because they were forbidden by royal (or whatever the equivalent descriptor would be for an emperor) decree that corpses were not to be cut open &c. As far as they were concerned, the inside of the human body is basically a big blob of jello with some beams and pipes in it.