"It's all rubbish!" cry the sceptics steeped in conventional medicine. Yet for all their clamour, it's clear that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) works, and can sometimes rid people of chronic disease. How do we bridge this gap? Do we continue to treat one branch of medicine as science and the other as magic? Perhaps there's a third way.rnConventional medicine regards the body as a machine, like a jumbo jet or a computer. It assumes that the body becomes diseased in much the same way a machine breaks down—when a specific part goes wrong.
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