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In the Western world, homeopathy was the first alternative therapy to challenge conventional medicine. Aromatherapy and Bach flower remedies followed within too long… and then there was the deluge.

I find it fascinating to browse through the lists of natural, alternative and complementary practices that challenge conventional allopathic medicine.

I find it even more fascinating how so many people seem to believe that the holistic approach, or traditional medicine as some like to call it, will solve all of their problems. It’s like we cannot put up with the idea of not being perfect machines, so when some part of our psycho-physiological mechanism stops working, we must find a remedy that brings it back to (supposed) perfection again.
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