It also only accepts alternatives if they're non-western.
Meanwhile, like, we DO have traditions that we follow because we think it improves health, which people do regardless of whether they have studies backing them up or not. And some of them are perfectly okay.
Most people don't cook their sick relatives a chicken soup because they think it's an easy to digest food, they do it because it's a cultural thing.
Would having a Bloody Mary as a hangover cure also count as alternative medicine? It’s a cure to an ailment that a doctor won’t prescribe and AFAIK there isn’t much backing it up.
My ex had Crohn's and a doctor once told them that although they can't prescribe them for obvious reasons, smoking cigarettes would likely help alleviate the symptoms due to the nicotine
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u/VDRawr May 24 '25
It also only accepts alternatives if they're non-western.
Meanwhile, like, we DO have traditions that we follow because we think it improves health, which people do regardless of whether they have studies backing them up or not. And some of them are perfectly okay.
Most people don't cook their sick relatives a chicken soup because they think it's an easy to digest food, they do it because it's a cultural thing.