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Medical news site shut down in China after doubting traditional anti-COVID treatment [Health] | [No Comments] MISE À DAY A popular medical news site in China is banned from publishing after questioning the effectiveness of a traditional Chinese medicine-based COVID treatment promoted by authorities. Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019 called traditional medicine “the treasure of Chinese civilization” and instructed that it should have as much influence as modern medicine. The supposed virtues of traditional pharmacopoeia have since been regularly praised by the authorities. A medicinal treatment based in particular on honeysuckle and apricot seeds, baptized Lianhua Qingwen, had thus...
