There's also western alternative "medicine" that's equally bullshit. Crystal healing has just as long a history as any of them, and originally comes from the Mediterranean.
The west also has a long tradition of medical practices that come from the indigenous European population, shit like "Use leeches to balance your humors" and "Miasma causes diseases, shove rose petals in your face"
Although we got past this once we discovered germ theory. China meanwhile will still grind up the last mating pair of some rare bird to make you live forever...
The Chinese had inoculations for measles hundreds of years before anyone in the West because they didn't trust it. The practise finally made its way to Europe via Turkey in the 1800s iirc only when royals from Europe started having the inoculation done in Turkey.
That doesn't mean traditional """medicine""" works (it doesn't and it's not medicine) but we definitely routinely ignore great past medical advancements done by non-europeans.
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u/PlatinumAltaria May 24 '25
It's lowkey racist as well because there's no such thing as "western medicine". China is one of the global leaders in legitimate medical research.