Critics, and that includes most conventional doctors, say the chief danger of alternative medicine -- aside from wasting money -- is that the patients get so carried away with unconventional cures that they dismiss regular medicine entirely. "The nightmare," says University of Chicago neurologist Clifford Saper, "is seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine, which is subject to both quackery and fads. A poorly trained massage therapist can do a good deal of damage. And some of the food supplements purveyed by health-food stores in recent years proved so harmful that they had to be pulled off the market.
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Tradtional medicine/alternative medicine/holistic healing and sometimes quackery - that's the problem with the way anything other than allopathy is at as. There is no doubt that a lot of what is being sold out there as alternative medicine is - quackery. But then so is allopathy. Do you know that in the capital of India - Delhi, there is atleast one quack calling himself a qualified allopath, to every three genuine ones. As for why you didn't come to us earlier-I have heard that from alternative healers as well.
you are absolutely right
more often than not the problem is of standardisation in alternative medicine.
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