Weird of you to assume that supporting holistic medicine automatically means you must reject all things allopathic medicine. Since you lack understanding for what holistic healing even is, allow me to explain: https://twitter.com/Moylend_/status/1309736564856152070

I used to have recurring fungal and bacterial infections at LEAST once every other month. I literally lived in the doctor’s office. Western medicine helped me kill off the fungus and bacteria, holistic medicine prevents me from even getting it.

Allopathic medicine: A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery.

Holistic medicine: therapies that attempt to treat the patient as a whole person by considering an individual's overall physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional wellbeing. The focus of holistic medicine is health optimization, disease prevention, and treating the root cause.

Since changing up my lifestyle, the bacteria and fungus no longer have a comfortable environment to manifest in thus I no longer have recurring bacterial or fungal infections (something allopathic medicine could not help me with).

You know what other symptoms allopathic medicine could not help me with that holistic medicine has been able to help me with? Hair loss, fatigue, irregular menstrual cycles, recurring colds, and severe anxiety (after being dependent on SSRIs for 5 years).

Supporting a holistic way of living does not mean that if my arm gets chopped off I’m going to run to the essential oil cabinet instead of the hospital. Believing this is how it works is incredibly simple brained.

Allopathic medicine and holistic medicine have room to coexist. The funny thing is you wouldn’t have allopathic drugs without “holistic medicine” (since herbs and oils that have been used for thousands of years are apparently only exclusive to the holistic community).

Aspirin, for example, was modeled after the pharmacologically active compounds of white willow and birch after a chemist took note of the healing properties these plants have had in communities for thousands of years. Modeling drugs after plant compounds isn’t new news.

You know what sounds more dumb than using essential oils and crystals for healing? Blindly believing those things have no validity to them simply because school never told you so. If you are unable to use your brain cells to form thoughts that weren’t handed to you, I’m sorry