Science appears to be caught in the middle between myth and mysticism.
It has not decided how to view alternative medicine based upon its own terms of reducibility as a mechanistic phenomenon. Alternative medicine retains a link to the past. It encompasses myth as part of the remnants of a primitive belief system that would no longer appear appropriate. It translates into power that encompasses the universe as a holistic phenomenon. It attaches significance to the mythical remnants of the past bonding man to his environment as a mere participant in an ever greater plan of things.