I worked at a mission hospital and when we couldn't help the patient, the patient's family would call in the local Sangoma, which is a traditional healer, and, sometimes, the Sangoma helped the patient. Even, although, it didn't make sense from our western medical perspective. So, that was an eye-opener for me. I think that means that we have a limited perspective on health and illness. I think health and disease is very complicated.
Many factors come into play.
Well, I think there is always a psychosomatic aspect to illness. I don't separate the emotional and the physical or the psychological anymore. What I learned in Chinese medicine, and what I see all the time now, it's all the same thing. The mind is in the body. Everything that's made in the brain is actually made in the body as well.