Wats the advantages and disadvantages of traditional chinese medicine?

Question

ye so wats tha plus and minuses

Answer 1

Chinese medicine is a hit or miss medicine.

In Western medicine, you have prove that it works and it will not kill you, before you can sell it to the public.

Answer 2

It's not a hit or miss thing with traditional Chinese medicine!

The Chinese group food into two groups: heaty and cooling.

Too much heaty stuff (e.g fried food, chocolates) will make you ill with common sickness like fever and sore throat.

To reduce the heatiness, cooling medicine is applied like luo han guo drink, antelope's horn drink(it's made very finely and one horn can be used at least 20times).

Advantage: It actually works with this 'law' or guideline.

Downside: Certain ingredients include endangered animal parts (e.g Bear's paw).