Do you think there is any merit to alternative or natural personal healthcare?

Do you think there is any merit to alternative or natural personal healthcare? Vitamins, minerals, herbs, ozone, dietary, meditation...
... possibly in conjunction with modern traditional medical care and medicine?

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Natural remedies have existed for millennia and some actually work. Whether it's hit or miss, or actual observation depends on the remedy.

But they're not a substitute for actual clinically tested medicine that had proven to work for serious diseases. Acupuncture helps a bad back, so does rest, stretching, anti-inflammatories and painkillers. Sure reducing spicy food, gluten or lactose may help those with crohn's disease but the thing that stops them s***ing blood 30 times a day is the lab-tested pharmaceuticals they have to take. Chemo and radio-therapy stops some cancers, such as my mother's. There's no food or supplement that could have done that.

So my take is modern and natural medicine go hand in hand, but the real deal is streets ahead for a reason.

joko104 said:

Do you think there is any merit to alternative or natural personal healthcare? Vitamins, minerals, herbs, ozone, dietary, meditation...
... possibly in conjunction with modern traditional medical care and medicine?

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It's less likely to kill you, but I haven't seen any evidence that "alternative medicine" is actually helpful beyond the placebo effect.