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Why More And More People Turn To Holistic And Alternative Medicine For Health Care
What we think of today as “alternative” or “complementary” medicine used to be all the medicine there was. Doctors were not educated at universities, instead, they apprenticed with an established doctor. They learned how to make a diagnosis and prepare medications in the form of ointments, syrups, teas and poultices. These home-grown healers used herbs and natural remedies from plant-based sources as what we now call Holistic and Alternative medicine for health care. Science Takes Over Medecine Western medical science only developed as rationalism and empiricism began to be the norm for explaining phenomena. In fact, what used to be regarded as the medical arts was not regarded as “science”…