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Yeah I’ve had the same experience. Alongside real medicine, for minor issues, I don’t really have a problem with it. If nothing else it’s an innocent placebo.
It’s just in rare cases where people over rely on it that I think it’s dangerous. You hear stories like people attempting to cure their cancer with exclusively TCM, but these cases thankfully don’t seem too common.
Yep, fair enough. I imagine if either of us had been really ill the treatment would be similar to what we'd receive in a western hospital, i.e. heavy analgesics. Fortunately haven't had to see that side of a Chinese hospital