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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
Before countries like Japan and China adopted scientific medicine they lagged well behind North America and Europe when it came to life expectancy.
Western Medicine has also been around for thousands of years and there is a direct link from medicine practiced by the Greeks, and even the Egyptians to what is present day medicine.
In today's world, old chinese men are more likely to take viagra then ground up tiger penis to help them get an erection because the results don't lie. There were a lot of traditional medicinal practices that have fallen out of favour in the west as well such as bloodletting, and treating the four humours, because modern medicine was found to be way more effective.
I don't understand the absolute reverence some people in the West have for anything Chinese/Japanese. Sure they had some interesting ideas, but when they went into their isolation modes a few hundred years ago, they fell behind the West in all kinds of areas. Medicine is one of them.
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These were techniques of "modern medicine" used since ancient Greece and Hippocrates to the 1800's.