• dx1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Holistic” is like the one word associated with “alternative medicine” that doesn’t really deserve a bad rap. Just means “addresses the whole” - like, physical therapy is holistic, focusing for instance on how treating an injury affects a dynamic process like walking, versus just focusing on healing the tissue or bone at the site of the injury.

    Just to absolutely nitpick that to death.

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        1 year ago

        Well, this is a tangent. My comment wasn’t even defending “alternative” medicine. But, the assumption there would basically be that every actually effective treatment that previous cultures/methodologies had identified has also been identified by modern “Western” medicine. It may be a good rule of thumb but it’s not universally the case.

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      1 year ago

      😂 Absolutely fair. I made that comment like 10 minutes after waking up and I knew I should’ve used a different word but couldn’t think of something more appropriate at the time. But to keep your context preserved I’m not going to edit it.

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      1 year ago

      Technically true but it has been cooped by the believers of homeopathy and chiropractor bullshit.