Here in a nutshell was the difference: one system looks for small variations from a pattern and aims to remedy them with herbs and lifestyle management that (it says) will prevent more serious disease, the other looks for an extreme deviation in adrenal hormone levels that manifests in profound illness, and treats it with powerful steroids, but regards minor deviations as outside its purview. Where the evidence stops, the doctors’ hands are tied. Or rather, when you live outside the boundaries of known pathology, conventional medicine hesitates to intervene.
