>People have practiced folk medicine all over the world, but
>we exoticise Asian folk medicine and elevate it to something
>it isn't

Wrong - ppl haven't "exoticised" anythjng, in fact, here in the west in general and US in padticular, most ppl w/o knowing much abt traditional chinese medicine think like you unfortunately and think w its just quackery and that Chinese medicine yielded no real health benefits, beyond a "placebo effect," until the influence of the west's modern medical standards

Sad

Shows that the arrogancd of eurocentric thinking effects all of us