Chinese officials are literally recommending we use both herbs medicine and allopathic treatment and "but scientists warn against it" and sat "they are like parodies. Nobody can take this seriously". NATURE IS THE PARODY? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-encouraging-herbal-remedies-treat-covid-19-scientists-warn-against-n1173041

The reason China is encouraging herbs for this illness is because they literally observed patients making full recoveries after being in critical condition in Wuhan, in addition to their success with similar herbs for SARS treatment.

It's baffling the way they try to discredit herbal medicine even when it comes to numerous scientific studies that have been done with specific plants for specific uses. The point is, they don't want you to be able to heal yourself with ANYTHING outside their negligent system.

This is very much about power and keeping access to healing slow or non-existent among the most vulnerable communities.

Also just want to point out that TCM (traditional chinese medicine) is an art, as the role of a healer is in general. Formulating herbs is an art that not every herbalist even masters. They are using a 5,000+ year old system of medical texts on these plants and uses. Not a game.

Eastern herbalism tends to differ from that in the West because 1. Many Western lineages of education were cut off by capitalism. 2. They formulate w/ not just a few herbs. They create entire prescriptions w/ as many as 20 different herbs. I cannot begin to tell you how complex..