RE: Why You, Hippocrates?

I enjoyed your article. As a naturopathic doctor, I feel that my profession is much closer to the original vision of health that Hippocrates had from the Kosian school of maintaining balance as a lot of what I do is about trying to work with the body's physiology rather then against it.

Modern medicine seems to be closer to a Knidiain philosophy now since that vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs are designed to inhibit targeted a targeted enzyme. If a enzyme system is inhibited excessively and causes negative effects it is called a poison. Even though modern medicine doesn't believe in a spiritual realm, they still trick themselves into believing that it is better to give a poison then do nothing since they don't trust the body to be able to self-heal and self-regulate on its own.