About fucking time. They put that shit next to actual medicine in the pharmacy.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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I mean they mostly don't. But more regulation and, subsequently, more evidence supporting those that do, is great
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.
In fairness, TCM has produced a nobel prize winning medicine
Wait really? Where can I read more about this?
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