“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” -Voltaire

Western medicine is typically disparaging of any treatments that cannot be confirmed by a peer reviewed double blind study with a well defined control group, often heavily financed by pharmaceutical companies. Eastern medicine, on the other hand, forays frequently into the realm of superstition, idol worship, and outright chicanery. Each system reflects not only accumulated experience, but also the intellectual habits and assumptions of the society in which it developed.

Jewish sages throughout the ages tended to adopt the medical practices of their time and place, while attempting to........

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