I remember the AMA's "debunking" of acupuncture not that many years ago. They concluded that Chi (Ki, Qi) must be electricity, and since they couldn't detect any current in the "so-called meridians" acupuncture must therefore be so much hokum. Now they routinely use acupuncture in anesthesiology for patients who are allergic to opiates, for instance.
The Chinese -- much less resistant to "new" ideas -- blend traditional Chinese medicine with Western pharmaceuticals and surgery in their remarkably efficient heath-care delivery system.
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