Chinese people, like all early people, had some folk medicines, some of which worked, and some of which didn't. Then some pre-weeaboos got into Eastern mysticism, went to India and meditated and got high on opium, and decided that that area of the world ran on magic and was so much better than the silly evidence-based medicine that was being developed in the rest of the world. The Chinese, being crafty entrepreneurs, promoted their ideas to stupid but wealthy Californians, who at the time had a huge hard-on for kung fu movies, and since everything that movie stars do must be emulated, regular people now spend large amounts of money realigning their chakras by ingesting the gall bladders of endangered animals.
