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Natural Remedies

2021-01-19 16:05:44.495838+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Natural and unnatural — ‘Natural’ remedies are metaphysically inconsistent and unscientific. Yet they offer something that modern medicine cannot

By design, modern medical science refuses to offer existential answers. To the question Why me?, the only honest answer is often We don’t know. Even when there is a clear answer – ‘The lung cancer was caused by smoking’ – patients will still wonder why they were stricken when so many other smokers are not. To broaden the answer with an appeal to genetics or environment is no help, since even together these variables can’t explain their own existence. I can still wonder why I ended up with these lousy genes in this lousy environment.

Likewise, answers to the question What can be done? often prove unsatisfactory because modern medical science limits itself to the illness itself, not the rupture of trust. ...

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