(doesn't matter its western or chinese):

1)its empirical based, non-scientific but has large amount of accumulated infos(to be examinted)

2)For 3rd world countries like china,it might provide low cost remedies for some illness, like common cold,flu

3)In some special cases, it can point to some research direction for scientists. Do I need to remind you some antibiotics were discovered by studying south american natives using frog skin secretion to heel wounds? But such research is for those trained in modern science, not those who run chinese medical herb stores. Overall, it's fading but it wouldn't die completely. Do I need to remind you,again, how Steve Jobs and Peter Sellers died ?

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As with that IQ thingie, I don't feel like discussing it with anyone except for entertainment purpose because overall I consider it a score on certain aptitude tests. As I mentioned, I've high achiever relatives as well as truely f**ked up relatives, all within 2 generations