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Please do not answer with “Follow” or “Following” and other single word responses.
No idle speculations and personal, biased, subjective opinions from armchair experts and professionals sitting in the comfort of their homes. Please support all your statements with facts, figures, data, information and robust, verifiable scientific evidence and publicly available research and findings.
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Of course not. Faced with the complexity of understanding biological phenomena, all rationally consolidated knowledge can help ... Even placebos are effective in animals other than the human ... Science can not explain this.
No, no randomized controlled trials on a large scale have been undertaken.
Dennis Mazur RCTs for TCM? Hmm. I thought that RCTs were NOT appropriate for TCM. Experts please help us and comment on this critical issue.
If we take the case of a single disease, malaria, as one of the most important medical conditions, then it is safe to say that traditional Chinese medicine is arguably superior. Malaria, as the greatest scourge of human health (lives) throughout history, is now managed with artemisinin-based therapy.
As we are aware, the long-term reigning antimalarial, quinine and related compounds, originally derived from Peruvian medicine, has been largely abandoned due to heavy drug resistance all over the world. Arteminins-based therapy is now recommended and has taken the stance. From where do we get arteminisins? From the Chinese herb Artemesia annua - and thanks to Project 523 and, most of all, to Tu Youyou.
Kholhring Lalchhandama Medicine is more than just one disease, namely malaria. Please provide more examples.
The peer-reviewed medical literature has a strong recent history of randomized controlled trials comparing Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine across a broad range of diseases.
If other diseases is required for mention, then artemisinins are again the best example. They are effective not only for malignant malaria, but also for human schistosomiasis (blood fluke infection) and veterinary taeniasis (tapeworm infection.
An interesting article was published the day before, which I received this morning, in Nature editorial. Here is the link:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01726-1?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20190606&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190606&sap-outbound-id=6B23AE4361DFD67DFF44EBDC7EAE4A0A03235D95&mkt-key=005056B0331B1EE88B97F36220BC3D5F
Kholhring Lalchhandama Suppose there are 100 randomly-selected doctors in NYC for a survey. What is your best guess about the number of doctors who will agree and say that TCM is superior?
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