Topic > Traditional Healing vs Western Medicine - 591

In recent years the popularization of traditional medicine and healing has grown rapidly due to its holistic approach. More and more people are choosing alternative medical interventions to Western medicine. The tension that exists between traditional healing and Western medicine is an issue that deserves attention as it is crucial to optimizing the best healthcare choices available to every human being. Western medical interventions and approaches are totally afforded from a Western point of view, which is primarily scientific and rational; while traditional healing is based on spiritual origins, and some may consider this absurd. However, fundamental differences in how we see and understand the world we live in have a major influence on the type of healthcare we typically seek. Human beings divide worldviews into two great divides: the scientific (biomedical) and the spiritual (non-biomedical). Despite the advancement of science and technology, many people are enormously influenced by their spiritual worldview and are unwilling to expose it....