Reply #15: the paradox of western medicine [View All]

[sweetheart]

If i'm ever in a car wreck, i hope i'm nearby a western medicine
hospital, as herb tea healing is not the thing for trauma.

That said, a cancer that has developed over 10 years, can be healed
by methods that are themselves sorting out the problem, and not the
symptoms (the cancer). Traumatic medicine is less adept at this,
treating the cancer and the car wreck as the same... cut cut, sew sew
.. get out of the bed.

I find that anyone who's encountered terminal illness first hears the
verdict of western medicine and then heads off to other forms of
treatment that may work... and indeed some do.... but one cannot
discount the willinness of the patient to be healed, to change habits
and ways of living that may have brought on the illness to start with.

Alternate medicine and healing works quite well, and it really helps
if the patient believes in it... just as the power of suggestion is
incredibly inportant in the healing process. In this regard, as with
most of life, caveat emptor (buyer beware), and patients can
be more gullible buyers indeed... but when one's life is on the line,
perhaps the patient can be trusted to be the best judge... for what
else does our society stand for?