Avoiding the Romanticizing Traditional Medicine

This idea applies across cultures - particularly given the seemingly unconventional ideas many have (AaonMagazine via Instapundit):

Embracing African medicine means not romanticising it. Science should be the great leveller: it doesn’t matter where brilliant ideas come from, so long as they work. Both Western doctors and African healers will always be tempted to be a little too optimistic about their own healing abilities, which is why it is so important that we use all of our best empirical tools to keep their delusions in check.