[felixchan]

The holistic perspective is that there is no one singular effective treatment for all individuals. It is a craft.

Perhaps curcumin works for one , not another. Perhaps the same curcumin works now, but not later. Or perhaps you'll never knows if it works at all. Being able to measure it is difficult. Welcome to the game.

It is a process that combines both thinking and feeling. (Intuition). Perhaps one day you step in shit. But the next day you find a flower. There is no right or wrong answer.

I do believe there are "charlatans" -- if that's what you want to call it -- who are attuned to this type of flow, or practice.

[getoffmyawn]

so the methods work, but we just can't tell if they're working? I imagine that would be quite financially convenient for people selling methods that don't work. if it's a game you can't measure if you're winning, it's a casino game. and casino games always favor the house.

[felixchan]

In holistic approaches, sometimes, the treatment works, but the cause and effect cannot be pinpointed. Oftentimes, it's not repeatable. That is because the state of the body is different from one point to another.

"Selling" these techniques or drugs complicates the matter. And this is why [alternative] therapies have a negative taste in scientific communities.