The Problem with Allopathy
Allopathy, defined as "the treatment of a problem by the application of a foreign substance," is the 'gold standard' of modern medicine. Almost everything that could be abnormal about your body is viewed from an allopathic standpoint: 'What could we put on/in/around this problem to make it better?'This view has a few critical flaws. First off, in order to define a "disease", an allopath first has to separate it from its environment. If you have heart palpitations, for example, an allopath will examine your heart, try to discern what's wrong with it, and try to come up with something to add to the situation that will help. But if your heart palpitations are a perfectly natural reaction to a hormone that is being secreted into your blood by a malfunctioning adrenal gland, allopathic medicine has no way of making that determination, because it doesn't have the philosophical outlook, much less the tools, necessary to trace the problem back to its actual root.
Related to this problem is the problem of specialization. A doctor might spend his entire career studying just heart disease, and another might devote her entire study to diabetes. Each reads their own journals, studies in their own niche, and talks to others that share their specialty - and rarely does a study done in one narrow specialization get examined by doctors from another who might be able to take the findings and apply them to a different aspect of health.
This is to say nothing of the conspiracy-theory view that modern pharmaceutical companies have no desire to actually cure anybody's problems. If they cured you, than you would have no impetus to keep spending money on their products. It's far better economically for them to treat your symptoms - effectively giving you a Kleenex for your runny nose rather than attacking the source of the runny nose: your cold.
If you're interested in solving your health problems, you need something fundamentally different. Something that can and does look at your entire body, and establish where your homeostatic balance went awry. Something like this.