it has it's limitations - especially when it comes to complicated systems. I agree - the science of complexity is in its infancy (as I mentioned in the parent)

it has it's limitations - especially when it comes to complicated systems. I agree - the science of complexity is in its infancy (as I mentioned in the parent). But your conclusion doesn't remotely follow. That there are conditions scientific medicine isn't yet much help with (truly!) does not connote that non-scientific systems must therefore do better. Eastern/holistic medicine may not be perfect, but if science-backed options are exhausted, it's all there is. But the treatments promoted by the major medival 'Eastern' systems don't work. You don't need a new understanding of complexity to demonstrate this - you give sick people the treatments, and see if they get better. They don't. So 'all there is' in this case is nothing. Hardly surprising from a prior plausibility angle: the 'whole' their so-called 'holistic' rubrics work with (chakras, qi, etc) are old metaphysical fictions.