Not all Traditional Chinese Meducine is Traditional Chinese Quakery but a lot of it is
what part is quackery
herbs
acupuncture
meridians
?
Balancing the five elements if metal, wood, fire, water and air in the human body is just as much quakery as balancing the four elements of earth, fire, water and air in the human body
you are just making superficial descriptions of the principles of chinese medicine
you must see how it is applied and if it works
How do they objectively measure how much of the four or five elements not found on the periodic table are in the human body in order to balance these so called elements for medicine
that implies you do not have an objective method for determining that chinese medicine is quackery
If they can not objectively describe what they are measuring in a way that other people understand the terms and understand them to mean the same things so that accurate predictions can be made based on a model then how is Chinese medicine scientific?
How do they objectively measure how much of the fire element is in the body?
I am not an expert but that might be by measuring the symptoms
@shortstories
they can objectively describe how to use the various tools of the art
their description is based on the recorded and agreed upon characteristics of the tools
for example, a certain symptom is caused by a lack or excess of a certain type of energy
then one of their tools is sought that can address that imbalancee