Originally Posted by
bigboab
Most alternative medicine is of a palliative nature. They do not cure. I know a few people who keep returning to the same person because they 'cure' their back troubles.
Perhaps cure/relieve that particular bout of back problems. Go to a doctor with back pain and at best he will prescribe an anti inflammatory and pain killers and suggest rest. If someone finds acupuncture does the same thing then I see no difference.
A lot of the argument could be over choice of words- cure / treat
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Much of modern medicine treats the symptoms not the disease as well. Take the common cold, there is no cure but people swear by their dayquil/daynurse or whatever thing they take that relieves the symptoms. So in that respect alternative medicines can be considered comparable.
One has to look at what it actually is that the alternative medicine is treating and accept the treatment for what it is.
Bottom line is that there are respected alternatives out there. Unfortunately there are also a lot of charlatans in what is basically an unregulated field. Do we dismiss the respected practitioners because of the quacks?
I know plenty of people that will not visit a regular doctor because they believe they are all quacks.
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