"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. An

"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.