(11-13-2012, 03:05 PM)rie Wrote: It's interesting to see how this authoritarian system has it's polar counterpart in the reactionary movements. Now we have both side, that seem like polar opposites, doing exactly the same thing - which is, don't use the other system, they are wrong/we are right.
Very true! I was stunned to hear an herbalist friend tell me she would never take her child to the ER for snakebite. (She lived in rattlesnake country.) She would handle it with herbal medicine.
I thought she was nuts! Or maybe she has Native American secrets I don't know about...
When I planned a home birth but ended up with an emergency C-section due to unforeseen complications, I felt embarrassed around some of my holistic friends. How crazy is that! I wouldn't feel that way now, but back then I did.
Emergency trauma is where conventional medicine shines! I am very grateful to modern medicine for saving my life and my child's life.
They just suck at treating degenerative (lifestyle-related) conditions.
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