In addition to being covered under laws prohibiting the unlicensed practice of medicine, tongue splitting is now explicitly illegal in some U.S. states and banned in the U.S. military, so, by necessity, it is an underground practice.
In addition to being covered under laws, tongue splitting is now explicitly illegal in some U.S. states and banned in the U.S. military by necessity, it is an underground practice. This is so. These laws are prohibiting the unlicensed practice of medicine.