Quote Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro View Post
There's a saying over here: There's no alternative medicine. There's just medicine (supported by evidence and science) and quackery.

The problem is that what is usually labelled as "alternative medicine" takes parts of the first and mixes it with the second to varying degrees. Some approaches are pure quackery, others are largely medicine with some vestigial quackery.

The task then becomes to take those parts which actually work and discard the rest (because it's either useless or downright dangerous).

I, for example, am currently suffering from a spot of mild hypertension. The first things we went through? What's my diet like? How active am I? Sports? We then decided on some changes to sport and diet. No medicine unless it becomes worse or the changes don't show an effect.
That's wonderful, but medicine proscribes that I get pills and a mild suggestion that I could lose some weight by eating less and moving more. Which, not from lack of trying extremely hard, I know doesn't work for me. To be a bit more specific, even while I was implementing my changes already (which I am not supposed to be able to stick to, regardless of effect) an increase of the dosage was planned. And only stopped because I confronted them with consistent low blood glucose measurements.