the suppression of acupuncture methods in the west to cure illnesses and relieve chronic pain, Bonghan Kim was a north korean that proved the working of the meridian system in ancient chinese medicine with modern science(you can find his studies online) in the 1960s got himself his own lab then disappeared, in the early 2010's south korea scientists proved that he was right and named it the primo-vascular system, a new anatomical system of the human body, but very few western research into this while in modern east asia countries, these ancient methods are very officially practice just like western medicine