Acupuncture

I'll probably get shot down in flames here but, this is how I see it knowing people with difficult to treat ailments:

Western medecine: Very good with fixing mechancal type problems with the human body - say a knee reconstruction. amazing stuff, glad it's all possible.

Eastern/traditional medecine: very good with painfull/annoying ailments in areas western medicine struggles to treat. Example. My dad kept getting styes on his eyelids. 1 after the other. The doctor kept cutting them off. He's had about 5 or so removed, and on the 6th one his doctor said " you know, I've had one guy in here 35 times for this." My dad thought, there must be a better way. He went to see a naturopath, he said my dad's system was acidic and was causing the styes. My dad changed his diet as per the recommendations, hey presto, no more styes.

My mother has arthritis in her spine. The doctor just says take pain killers. She tried everything and in the end a naturopath recommended lifestyle changes - diet and exercise and various natural remedies. The pain is now managable.

If it works for you / your family, however it works that cool.

I think there is a danger as with any simple grouping of doing a Eastern / western medicine. There are cross overs and many parts of "Eastern" medicine have scientific basis, but not all, just because one part eastern way works doesn't mean another is valid.

Even if something is not tested dose not mean it's right or wrong, it just mean it's unknow.

Holding hands and humming while eating a banana, although quite feat to hum and eat is clearly rubbish , other method do have methods behind the madness so to speak.