The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #28, March 2015 | Page 16

while Native healers present
their herbs in the form of food to be
eaten, teas and poultices.
Having specifically calculated
pharmaceuticals makes it easy for
the medical society to scientifically
explain their medicine.
Native healers, on the other hand,
use their own knowledge and their
spiritual visions to formulate their
mixtures.
While the commercially
manufactured pharmaceuticals are
sometimes more powerful, the vast
majority of herbal content is similar
to the mixtures of Native healers.
In addition, native healers rely on
their spiritual beliefs as well as
their own physical procedures to
heal their patients.
The medical society, on the other
hand, holds an objective belief in
medicine.
Western medicine relies completely
on physical methods when curing
their patients.