We are just beginning to understand understand things like psychoimmunology and the nature of psychosomatic illness. Folk medicine around the world functions on levels that we criticize as being ignorant and inferior to todays medicine and yet it is the foundation of health that got us to the population level that we know today. Not only that, but much of the sea salt and mal aire, and baths that have been criticized as well as Avatars original post is no different then the CURES as well as the symptoms experienced by those who need as well as provide treatments from curanderismo in latin america or shamans around the world. Yet we project and air of superiority in comparison to their belief systems while at the same time glorify the wisdom of these practices and taking from them the ethnobotanical knowledge these people have worked with EFFECTIVELY for thousands of years. As soon as we see some one within our own society exhibiting "symptoms and beliefs" of these primitive people we revere and emulate, we pathologize them as being mentally ill or potentially mentally ill. Avatar keep learning.

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