Dammit!

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Well no. Doctors are a much later invention, but the skills are shared, if not the sophisticated knowledge.

theres no denying the collective evidence of herbal/organic remedies well before the science broke them down into components.
the village healer was prescribing willow bark tea long before joe aspirin arrived.
thats why i dont discount it. medicine is what heals, not why it heals.
trial and error is the most brutal form of research, one learns lasing lessons quickly.

i cannot see the naturopath wrestling Covid, performing an appendectomy, or sorting prostate cancer, but theres a place in medicine for them.

One of the reasons we have pandemics at all is over population. One of the causes of over population is modern medicine.
So, one could extrapolate from those facts that if we were still reliant on the old ways, including my personal favourite - hedge witchery - we might not be enduring this pandemic at all...

Oh, and just an update, with daily treatment consisting of eye drops of yoghurt whey, my nasty conjunctivitis is just about cleared. Tomorrow with luck, I will be able to use my contacts and mucking about with knives in the kitchen will be less of an adventure.