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When personal experience conflicts with evidence-based medicine standards

I've been using herbal remedies based on Greco-Islamic medicine for my arthritis pain, and they work better than NSAIDs, but I'm constantly second-guessing myself because there are no controlled studies.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The effectiveness of your treatment is being undermined by internalized doubts about what constitutes legitimate knowledge.

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“Where Are You with Unani and Greco-Islamic medicine?”

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