Why is there such a strong correlation between Christianity and holistic / homeopathic / alternative medicine?

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Christians believe that God the creator created your body to heal itself. Think of it -when you cut or bruise your self you don't need anything for it to heal because its created to do that by the God who is often refered to as "The Great Physician".We are not born with a conjoined twin at our side who is a physician.
Before sin came into the world Adam %26 Eve lived in the Garden of Eden living on a plant based diet. So I think that may be where the herbalism component comes from. Also Jesus healed people with out the aid of doctors. Every once in while someone gets healed from something drastic with out the aid of a Dr.
The website below is an example of that.There are some spontaneous modern day miracles but they are not prevalent
in our "pharmacological based "medicine era. Our FDA is in bed with big Pharma so we cant trust them to be objective.
We were told for years HRT (hormone replacement therapy ) by pregnant mare urine (Premarin) was a panacea for the main diseases of women only to find out its caused estrogenic breast %26 uterine cancers and strokes. Cancer rates are no lower, neither are heart attacks deaths.
In fact Drs %26 hospital staff cause about some 400,000 deaths a year. And that's from self reporting by the Drs %26 institutions
themselves.You have to wonder if the actual numbers aren't higher. Its called iatrogenic death. Try search on it. Clinics %26 hospitals are run by bean counters (accountants)%26 not those who care to cure people. In fact they lose their cash cow (sick folk) if you DO get healed. Its really not in their interest to even find out what is causing your inital problem. In fact they don't do the work of knowing the cause -they're into treating the "symptoms" without ever knowing the genesis of the problem.Remember these are the folks who still think its OK put put mercury in your body long term in the form of tooth fillings.So I think Christians tend to trust God based or Creation based medicine. I think the final issue is one of trust.

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We learned these things from the Buddhists, Hindus, and others (some denominations of Christianity) who do not use traditional doctors and medicines.

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it doesn't matter what faith you have ,you are going to do it your way=that's why there is such a strong correlation

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Is there? I didn't know that and I am an herbalist.

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There is?If so, it's a rather new (and dare I say syncretist) connection.Christianity has traditionally had little to say on the subject of medical practices (and later, medical sciences).However, there are a number of factors that could explain a rise in the use of non-standard medical/health practices among Christians.The first is the general trend, in Western countries (especially North America), to explore non-Western or pre-Enlightenment practices in medicine and health care. Allopathic medicine (modern medical science) has on the one hand practically discredited itself by virtue of its own success and on the other hand reached the limit of problems it can solve easily and cheaply, so people are increasingly turning to homeopathic or other non-standard medicines either to complement or to replace their normal medical care. Christians, one supposes, are no exception to this trend.The second is the rise of Christian groups that are quite simply hostile to the modern sciences (which includes medicine in many respects), and so, in addition to their home-grown brand of "faith healing", their practitioners are quite at home with unconventional forms of health care and medical practice.The third is the decline of the old-school, mainstream Christian denominations. In the "lapsed Christian" or "post-Christian" pool of people who are no longer members of the older denominations and who are not about to convert to the new ones, there has been a flourishing of neo-pagan and/or syncretist beliefs, many of which incorporate homeopathic medical practices which are based on their eschatological and (pre-)theological constructions of the human body and human soul.It must be said that many people who are effectively "lapsed" or "post" Christians still identify, however weakly, with their childhood religious affiliations and may even regularly attend services at Christmas and Easter (the "C%26E crowd" as they are more or less affectionately called).Fourthly, allopathic medicine is an extremely recent development compared to the ancient status of homeopathic medicine. Until as late as four-five hundred years ago, everywhere in the world, for millennia, practiced some form of homeopathic medicine or another, including in Christian Europe (with the notions of the "humours" and the bodily fluids that were thought to carry them). So it should come as little surprise that anyone looking at the shortcomings (real or not) in allopathic medicine should turn to pre-existing alternative approaches.Those four reasons can probably be said to constitute a good answer for this question.

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Although my base religion is Christian, I hadn't noticed the Christian influence toward Homeopathic at all. I chose that path for myself and my family because Western Medicine for treatments other than broken bones and major illness has been a total joke for us. Western Medicine promotes prescriptions for symptoms rather than attempting to get to the root of the illness. For my childrens sake, I don't want to have illness prolonged and I certainly don't want them to think popping a pill solves our health problems. Homeopathic/Herbs/Alternative therapies are an incredible way to cleanse our bodies and yes "prevent" future illnesses to some degree. Perhaps the Christians that you know connect the healing power of the plant medicines back to historic times of Jesus.

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I find the opposite. My family are very 'religious' and they totally disapprove of my interest and qualifications in alternative and holistic medicines. They seem to associate it with being evil and Satanic and they prefer to use conventional medicines at all times rather than even consider the benefits of anything else.
My mother will use herbs in cooking but anything concerning health properties of the very same herbs and she immediately associates it with witchcraft!

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Never noticed that. I'm a catholic, then maybe that's why.

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if anything ive found the reverse to be trueyou cant make a general statemant on this topic

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Let's presume you mean Conservative Christians. "Christianity" is a huge broad swath of humanity. In that view I have not seen this 'strong' correlation. There has, in fact, been much aversion by mainstreamers to our work. That being said, having a strong faith (ANY faith) will help you in your quest for healing, and the definition of healing more than none. If you do not mean CCs, then I have not witnessed that either. I do this sort of work, and many of my clients may well be Christian, but it's because of the demographic of where I live, and the preponderance of those religions in this area.

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