kat,
Even though my posts have been largely "why not trust", I think one has to acknowledge things have moved on a lot since "blood letting"
Overall, I think modern western medicine does have explanaitions for the functioning of the human body that make sense, understanding of which does seem to enable trained people to offer cures reasonably reliabliy...
As far as I understand it alternative medicines do seem to work for many but they don't seem to always agree with western medicine. What seems to be missing is a big WHY?
Could do with someone like Mark Cohen on that.
Jon