June 20, 2021

If you have touched into the philosophical differences between natural healthcare and the more materialistic, evidence-focused healthcare that dominates health budgets, and been surprised by the lack of any common understanding, read on for some exploration of how to span this seemingly unbridgeable gulf. Natural healthcare has many schools, with different beliefs, techniques, rituals and tools. That said, practitioners of hugely different techniques tend to appreciate the possibility that each other’s methods can work, or are at least worth practising, with or without comparative measurement studies. In contrast, the school of thought and practice that terms itself ‘scientific medicine’ says