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I think everyone here agrees numerology is a scam with zero scientific evidence.
What does lemmygradians think of traditional Chinese medicine?
The scientific reasoning behind specifically acupuncture and cupping sound 100% like bullshit to me, but anecdotally it works for relieving chronic pain for my partner. Go figure.
Traditional medicine is just dangerous pseudoscience in the modern world and needs to be left behind and completely rejected
Dumb take. Mainstream medicine is still warped by the conditions of the society in which it is developed and practiced. In America, that means politicized/racist drug policy results in prohibition of actually useful drugs while creating a massive legally prescribed opiod addiction epidemic. That doesn't mean it's all bad, but there's certainly a lot of ways in which "alternative" medicine works better than mainstream medicine.
That’s more about the way medicine is handled rather than the medicine itself. If we look at a country like Burkina Faso where vaccines were adopted en mass when they were made available, those vaccinations did much more to reduce the pervasiveness of a huge number of disease quite quickly and much more effectively than traditional medicine in the country was every able to