How strange... Homeopathy is definitely a 'lefty-liberal' thing in this country.

I think it's all a load of crap, myself. However, it's no myth that a great deal of what constitutes healing hinges on one's mental state, so if people want to believe in it, I'm not going to tell them different.

My mother, who's a pretty rational, no-nonsense person, swears by things like acupuncture and magnets in the treatment of her aches and pains.

I certainly wouldn't argue that Western medicine is beyond reproach... so much of it is designed to wait until people get chronically ill and then charge a fortune to merely hold the symptoms of disease at bay. And a lot of what the pharmaceutical companies push on us in the name of 'science' is fucking toxic... just listen to the list of side effects that go along with almost any new 'wonder drug' that they produce.