"How Ancient Remedies are Changing Modern Medicine"

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Yeah, although this is not all that new. About a decade ago I was doing some freelance work for the BMJ extracting data from medical papers for meta-analysis. There was considerable interest at the time in traditional Chinese medicine treatments they had been investigating using Randomized Controlled Trials. The ones that worked were recommended, the ones that didn't weren't. In some cases the remedy was less effective than the standard Western treatment but had fewer harms and so was recommended when standard treatment was liable not to be tolerated.

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Stop excusing the massacre of endangered species, you wannabe-chinaman.

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Sure, but the team had no one who could speak Chinese and so couldn't review Chinese language papers. I honestly cannot remember for sure if there were English language publications of Chinese based research included in the study, but I think there were.

@deepthought said
Yeah, although this is not all that new. About a decade ago I was doing some freelance work for the BMJ extracting data from medical papers for meta-analysis. There was considerable interest at the time in traditional Chinese medicine treatments they had been investigating using Randomized Controlled Trials. The ones that worked were recommended, the ones that didn't w ...[text shortened]... t but had fewer harms and so was recommended when standard treatment was liable not to be tolerated.

Opinion, experience and judgement was the foundation of medicine until quite recently. Prior to this, there was very little in the form of "translational" science that applied directly to patients. Epidemiology took off 1n the 1960s, but the data is correlative.