My Chinese doctor, not the version communized by the CCP, but one whose family medical practice dates back to the Ching Dynasty, told me that Chinese prescriptions are supposed to have "poison" in it. It is the essential principle for "balanced medicine": the way of medicine to balance your body. "中醫" does not mean "Chinese medicine", he furthers. "中“, "central", "balance" has often been mistaken as "Chinese" when it simply means balance. This so called country itself also means a continent in the middle of...well, basically nowhere. It is just another continent like Europe, or Africa.
