Nurses are dedicated to comforting the ill. The medical system is dedicated to providing facilities and services for the sick. Psychiatrists and psychologists are dedicated to treating the mind, helping people to understand and cope with their worries. Religious ministers are dedicated to helping people find spiritual fulfillment and inner peace. Everyone should feel free to look for help outside traditional medicine, but should realize that unproven remedies may not work.
Homeopathy claims taking vanishing doses of a drug is better.
Although overdose of any drug may be harmful, it is hard to see how an underdose will work, unless the drug is ineffective, so that lower doses do less harm. Osteopathy claims that many but not all illnesses are caused by spine problems. Natural medicines, even when they have been accepted by a culture for many centuries, still cannot be guaranteed to work. When careful studies have shown that a natural medicine does work, it has often been accepted by doctors. Prayer may help a person's spirit, it may improve the healing processes in a person's immune system.