Re: Both!!

Molly, I hear you! Unfortunately I don't think the wall between modern medicine and natural medicine will ever come down. And that's because modern medicine (at least in terms of disease curing and health restoration) is quackery pure and simple.

It's elaborately maintained only by oppressive legal actions, draconian corrupt and anti-competitive government regulations world wide, and supported with quasi Science invalidated by data manipulation and massive conflict of interest.

It boggles the mind how much money and oppression is required to keep the fraud intact. And of course we all pay for it through the nose.

It's funny when you think of it how misdirected it all is. The approach to disease is fixing people like you'd fix a machie. Cut this out, stick a new part in, screw it back (or sew it up) and use abrasive chemicals to kill the bad stuff.

We're biological creatures first, not primarily chemical or mechanical. And we happen to have an amazingly efficient self repairing mechanisms built right in to us - which modern medicine almost completely ignores in its approach to healing.

As Hippocrates stated years ago, the only healing comes from your body (paraphasing). And "Let your food be your medicine". (quoting) Doctors still take the Hippocratic oath while disgarding the principals. Is it all because medicine knows so much better after all these years? Not from where I sit.