[muzani]

The problem is traditional medicines is that it gets little scientific funding. It's not very profitable to do effectiveness research, so few people do it.

There's usually centuries of anecdotal evidence that it works. People do limited experiments, and pass down what works and what doesn't. But these are usually not done to a mass scale, or with things like controls.

A lot of it also gets warped. If you're in the US, a lot of the Chinese or Indian medicine is not as legit as the same thing in China or India. There needs to be someone around to correct and call out charlatans. Someone who has been studying Ayrveda for 5 years and knows Sanskrit can more easily review existing practitioners.

Even if it's completely legit, there needs to be some kind of certification body. The certification body has to also be pretty focused on the art itself, and not on cash flow.