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
