Reply #214: "most of our drugs are derived from herbs" because they did what you suggested

[muriel_volestrangler]

They made an effort to "bring all medical treatment together, study it all, finds what works and move on from there". "Western medicine" is characterised by a massive process of finding out what works. And so they've looked at herbal drugs, found out how well they work, found out what the chemicals in them are that actually do the job, got rid of the other chemicals in the herbs that have nasty side effects, and come up with something that does the job very well.

Homeopathy is something that has been found to work purely through the placebo effect (which isn't that surprising, since its claims make no sense under the basic sciences of physics and chemistry either). These doctors are saying it's time to move on from it. Just as they have done from 'witchcraft', which worked through the power of suggestion as well.