The crazier thing is that the modern "traditional" Chinese medicine was invented by the Chinese government in the 1950s. They were trying to modernize their health care system but didn't have the production capacity to make modern medicines, so Mao encouraged "traditional" cures be used as a stop-gap. He didn't believe in it himself, and got Western style health care, of course.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/10...eve-in-it.html
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