Reply #20: It is blatantly untrue

[Dookus]

that Western medicine only treats symptoms while Eastern medicine treats causes.

How could that be true when a lot of Eastern medicine didn't even KNOW the causes of disease? If you have an infection, the symptoms are fever, pain, etc. The CAUSE is bacteria. Anti-biotics kill the CAUSE. They don't just give you aspirin for the fever.

And what about homeopathy? Not Eastern, but "alternative". It's whole basis is treating disease by using poisons that cause the same symptoms of the disease, regardless of underlying cause.

I've found the only people who sell the idea that Western medicine only treats symptoms are also selling something else.