At the same time, you may well ask: What’s wrong with “Alternative Medicine”?
The failure to look for deeper explanations is widespread among health practitioners—both mainstream and alternative. Fortunately, a younger breed of functional medicine practitioners are beginning to get it right.
Good rules of thumb for dealing with any medical condition — rules that are useful when dealing with doctors, and when dealing with alternative medical practitioners. Of course, these rules apply to long-term, chronic conditions. If you’re in the emergency room with a life-threatening condition, it’s not a good time to quibble! Get yourself stabilized. But if what you’re experiencing is not something that is immediately and irrevocably harmful, apply these rules religiously.
A last, there is an alternative to the pill-pushing bozos who infest the medical profession. There are doctors who specialize in “functional medicine”–or as I like to refer to them, “systemologists”.
A simple soap is all you need — but it has to be the right soap (tecnu).
There are many ways to heal the knees that your Orthopaedic specialist won’t tell you about–because their drug-company education never taught them!