"::::::::::::::::yes.  there's a whole range of issues that medicine recognizes as problems but is hesitant to address because they can't ascribe an etiology to them.  AltMed doesn't worry about that as much, and sometimes offers apparently effective treatments.  it reminds me of Freud, who originally started working with things like glove anesthesia (a physiological loss of sensation in the hands that - so he decided - was purely psychological in origins).  very difficult to assess in concrete evidentiary terms.    

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