For many years, there has been a divide between conventional medicine and the holistic approach of age old medical methods. Modern medicine offers many techniques that are both useful and important, but it cannot provide perfect health without relying on the holistic approach of alternative medicine, which treats the human body as a whole, as a microcosm of a macrocosm.

Alternative medicine, in turn, has much to gain through modern inventions and discoveries. In fact, we are now on the verge of an entirely new approach to medicine: scientific knowledge can rely upon the knowledge that people have used for thousands of years.