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Conventional medicine tends to treat the disease, with a focus on getting better.
My advice would be to first seek treatment through traditional medicine. If traditional medicine can't help you, I would encourage you to seek other methods and work together with both types of practitioners. To open lines of communication between herself and patients, Dr. Weiss has attended seminars about the role of complementary treatments in traditional medicine, but stresses that she is far from an authority on the subject. Dr. Weiss encourages patients interested in complementary therapies to learn more about them first, just like they would ask questions about traditional treatments. Pharmacists can be an excellent resource on herbal remedies, she suggests, and libraries or other resource centres can assist with research on additional information.