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China demands evidence that traditional medicine injections really work (www.science.org)

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New regulations ask manufacturers to provide efficacy and safety data—or withdraw their products

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

only apply to TCM products that are injected intramuscularly or intravenously, not to the remedies widely taken by mouth

The potential harm from injections seems like a good reason to tackle them. I suspect wider TCM has too much support to be worth taking on.

In fairness, TCM has produced a nobel prize winning medicine, so forcing more legit research on it could produce some interesting results - in addition to dispelling a lot of potentially harmful nonsense.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In fairness, TCM has produced a nobel prize winning medicine

Wait really? Where can I read more about this?

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

In 2015, Tu Youyou won the nobel in medicine for a breakthrough anti-malarial drug her team discovered by compiling and testing tcm malarial remedies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou