Comment by interludead
1 month ago
In a way this feels less like inventing something new and more like rediscovering and formalizing old techniques with modern safety constraints
1 month ago
In a way this feels less like inventing something new and more like rediscovering and formalizing old techniques with modern safety constraints
It's important in these cases to preserve the lineage of where they came from.
There's a tendency to start calling them 'western medicine' and crediting it to the person who formalized it in the west rather than the source culture where it has existed for centuries.
The conversation is bit 2010, but the point still stands.