Bla. Bla. Bla.
Blatant fact that the more rote learning something is, the more women want to do it. Medicine became gatekeeping substances that we can google ourselves.
Men choose alternative medicine where they really heal and earn whatever they want. Why do women accept this all?
Arztberuf: Die Medizin wird weiblich – Deutsches Ärzteblatt
https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/arztberuf-die-medizin-wird-weiblich-a42ddcb6-66d6-4d30-acca-64daf6d4f2a2
Except so called alternative medicine as a treatment used to be very popular with women before the so called Covid 19 pandemic
> so called alternative medicine
Upwards of 80% of the world population rely on herbalism as their main source of health care as they have done for arguably hundreds of thousands of years. So as you say, what really is the "alternative" or "newage" (rhymes with sewage) medicine in the scenario...
To say nothing of the fact that the bulk of pharmaceuticals are derived from botanical sources, maybe with their main constituent tweaked slightly and synthesised in a lab to be able to qualify for a patent.
There are a lot of traditional herbal medicines claimed to be tested by the scientific method that are no longer considered to be alternative medicine to some people
Some people only claim to classify medical claims that have not been confirmed by science whatever that means as alternative medicine
Where they say if it is a herbal treatment confirmed by science then it is not alternative medicine
Some people have told me this way
My opinion is that a lot of treatments in so called traditional Chinese medicine are explained in a language that makes absolutely no sense and can not be tested because you do not know what the claim is
They are claims handed down from an ancient foreign language that people do not know how to translate correctly into the language of modern physics or modern Chemistry
Many of these practices such as use of mercury have been proven unhealthy for generations
Whole article about how there was evidence of poisoning by Chinese Alchemical Elixirs but these Elixirs continued to be used for 2000 years in spite of all the people poisoned in the 2000 year history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alchemical_elixir_poisoning
I'm not prepared to claim that all ancient medicine is legit. Far from it.
Moreover a lot of the context has been lost in translation. A good example of that is the doctrine of signatures. People think it means that if a leaf has a vaguely liver shape, then the plant must be good for the liver. In reality it's a mnemonic system. If you already know that a plant is good for xyz illness, then if you can also identify a feature of the plant that aligns with that, it makes it far easier to remember among the hundreds of other medicinal plants one needs to memorise. It also makes it far easier to teach that knowledge to the next generation. So, it's not always just a matter of ancient people having incorrect understanding, but about modern people missing the proper context of the knowledge and skills concerned (and no small degree of ignorant conceit).
Another thing to consider is that plants evolve over time, both through environmental pressures and through human cultivation. So what might have had a certain medical usage in ancient times, may or may not still hold true to the same extent today. Then there's the identification. Prior to Linnaeus there was no uniform way to identify a plant, nor to differentiate sub-species or local variations with much accuracy. Botanical science has come a long way since then.
The thing I'd caution about scientific validation though is that firstly, scientists typically only study one isolated molecule at a time. They mainly only study it in animal trials (eg. mice, rats, livestock, etc), which may or may not bear any relation to how it interacts with human physiology. Rarely do they account for the entourage effect, or make an effort to understand how growing cycle and growing conditions effect the concentration of properties. And most importantly, they only study plants which have commercial/financial value to the pharmaceuticals industry, which normally rules out gaining any credible information about things a regular person can harvest for free from underfoot in their own yard. So frankly I don't use scientific validation as a benchmark. It's a nice anecdote to corroborate the centuries of prior use, but the lack of scientific validation has little to no weight in my opinion.
Incidentally, one issue I have with modern herbalism is there are a lot of folks who are promoting so called "medical astrology". I know a few personally. I honestly think that's an embarrassing level of stupidity. That's not to say that astrology has no place in herbalism, because I think just like the doctrine of signatures it's an excellent basis for a mnemonic system to help keep track of plants and their usage according to categories of behaviour and characteristics. But that's far far from thinking one can prognosticate the nature of a person's illness or what medicine they should take based on their birth chart or what astronomical phenomena are occurring at the moment. That latter application is patently retarded. So much of what we think we know about stuff has more the quality of a superstition than it does of anything that makes rational sense upon closer examination, and frankly the continued promotion of stuff like that does more to convince people that traditional medicine as a whole is bogus than it does to help matters.
@shortstories
I know what you mean but no, that is an independent process. Women believe all kind of shit.
Many confuse e.g. phytomedicine with homeopathy and then think it does not work.
Alt med was e.g. eating certain herbs or doing certain movements to fix joints instead of cutting something. Another prominent example is the vagus system which was ridiculed until 20 years ago and now they act like it was known forever.