> chinese medicine usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials as well.

You gotta be kidding me! Do you really believe that?

Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on an incorrect understanding of the body and an incorrect disease model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine

>With an eye to the enormous Chinese market, pharmaceutical companies have explored the potential for creating new drugs from traditional remedies.[126] Successful results have however been scarce: a 2007 editorial in Nature said that while this may simply be because TCM is largely irrational pseudoscience, advocates have argued that it is because research had missed some key features of TCM, such as the subtle interrelationships between ingredients.[126]

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/acu.html

I am not saying there might be merit in some of the practices, however to say "usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials" is incorrect.