Medicine as we now it today has completely lost its way (I'm referring to ‘our’, ‘western’, ‘orthodox’, ‘scientific’ medicine or however you want to call it). It got too intertwined with the pharmaceutical industry which makes it impossible for it to pursue its originally noble objectives (saving lives, nourishing health, etc.).
Another problem it has is that it is very mechanically oriented, unable to see a person for what it is – an indivisible whole where a change in one part affects a whole range of other parts. The extreme specializations in medicine today is just a symptom of this: a specialist feels happy and proud for doing his job even if what he did will wreck havoc in other organs/body parts. Therefore the only type of problems you can really count on our medicine for are the mechanical injuries (wounds, broken bones, etc.), they seem to fit the current medicine's approach perfectly, but these tend to fail dismally when it comes to internal medicine.
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Ty for the comment! I gotta throw out there the truth that even eastern medicine is a huge distraction. All medicine is poison ☠️, and east or west style: it is still a distraction from the truth of our condition. And now it is our improving condition :) take care :D
I guess so. I'm not very familiar with the eastern medicine(s) so I refrained from commenting on that. I've been just vaguely acquainted with traditional Chinese medicine and in the worse case scenario it might proof to be ineffective, but not nearly as destructive as the wicked witch of the West, with which I did have quite some hands-on experience. We try to live by the Hippocrates' maxim with a twist of our own: ‘Let food (that grows in your garden) be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’. I guess back in his days that specification was self-evident and hence needed not to be pointed out.