(November 5, 2013 at 7:45 pm)leodeo Wrote: me and some guys on yahoo chat were talking about holistic medicine, and I didn't know what to say about it, do we think its good?You've obviously never had an illness which doctors couldn't cure. That's usually the trigger that sends people off into "alternatives". Now there's alternatives, and there's alternatives...
There's definitely a lot of quackery to be avoided. But one of the best "alternative" therapists I know has for his moto: "an alternative to medicine, not alternative medicine" i.e. holistic "medicine" which works is that which creates the conditions for the body to heal itself, usually through nutrition/diet.
Raw foods and dietary detoxification are the main approaches to self healing, and there are literally a tonne of books by people who have recovered from "incurable" diseases via this route. Indeed this route has a long history. But if you've never had an "incurable" illness, you will never know this alternative reality exists.
