[HN Gopher] Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated...
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by Science
Author : mgh2
Score : 34 points
Date : 2025-07-13 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| tkcranny wrote:
| You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved
| to work? - Medicine.
|
| --Tim Minchin
| _alternator_ wrote:
| My favorite paragraph lands near the end, after a great debunking
| of the paper:
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| > The authors behind the paper drawing connections between
| symptoms, proteins, and Chinese herbs are hopeful that their
| model will show which herbs used in TCM seem particularly
| promising. They claim that chemicals in some herbs are known to
| interact with the same proteins involved in a particular symptom,
| but that this herb-symptom association has so far been ignored by
| TCM practitioners. They give several examples, such as
| Aristolochia fangchi known colloquially as Fang Ji which, based
| on their computer work, could help with abdomen distention.
| Patients beware: that plant was used in the 1990s instead of the
| listed herb as part of a slimming regimen in Belgium, where it
| caused "an outbreak of terminal renal failure." That is something
| that abstract maps of chemical interactions may not tell you, but
| we should not forget what we already know from experience.
| JSteph22 wrote:
| The placebo effect is a helluva drug.
| snitch182 wrote:
| Genes cause fever ? I stopped there.
| mgh2 wrote:
| Root of curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44466838
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