> Every illness is unique, which means that all recoveries must also be in some sense unique. There is no one-size-fits-all to getting better.
Brilliant!
Brilliant!
When I had my cardiac arrest due to Ventricular Fibrillation, I was very glad that the bystanders immediately applied a generic off-the-shelf solution (CPR and a public defibrillator) and in doing so kept me alive without brain damage due to lack of oxygen. Rather than treating me as a unique individual who needed a tailored solution.
I am pretty sure modern medicine knows that, too. That fine graining therapy to the individual provides better results. But that approach is simply too expensive as it requires much more time for every patient.
Sure, and that's because they mostly had no idea what they were doing. If you have a bacterial infection today, you can take an antibiotic. If you have a dangerous viral infection, an anti-viral may help (though there are few of those). If you have a parasite, you get a very specific anti-parasite.
And on and on: there are many many diseases for which we have specific, targeted remedies that work with very high accuracy - well over 99%.
No woo woo plant energy "healing" achieves anything close to that.
Well, for starters, many medicines are just extraction of a plant or a synthesis of it. And they surely work, too.
And no doubt modern medicine is very good at targeting very specific diseases. And if I would suffer from a specific bacteria and I am too weak, I surely take modern antibiotics as well.
But the body is a very complex system - and there is the danger of only targeting symptoms and not solving the root cause.
Than I would have just fought a symptom and messed up my digestion system, that might further harm myself.
Traditional medicine had more the target of getting the whole system in order again. Removing the root causes for getting sick in the first place, or rather help the body achieve it to do on its own. And not make him dependant on pills for all eternity.
In my perception, the systematic wholesome thinking is more and more replacing the old mechanistic approach in modern medicine and I like that.
Sure. And they are also completely different thing then was achievable from those herbs in times we talk about.
Yes, in fact, modern medicine works better then 200 years ago.
Especially in the age of complex and poorly understood chronic illness, doctors should guide the patient through a process of "clinical experimentation" while also counseling them to improve environmental and lifestyle factors. But western health systems are laughably underresourced for this. So they remain competent when it comes to cut-and-dry situations, and misery-makers elsewhere.
Thanks for letting us know we should avoid this woo woo documentary!