Traditional medicine was the original decentralized medicine. Allopathic medicine (MDs) is centralized. @DrJackKruse

One of the general differences can be seen in its trust and humility.

Traditional medicine has humility, and knows that life is far more sophisticated and omniscient than we give it credit it for.

So, its practice defers to the wisdom of the body and merely supports the body's needs.

You can call it a trust in the emergent wisdom of the body by interplay of many complex factors.

This is fundamentally a trust in a decentralized framework.

Whereas, allopathic medicine tends to mistrust the body and overestimates its power.

This leads to a tendency to interfere with what the body is trying to accomplish. It knows better.

So it cuts out body parts, irradiates and poisons, interfere with protein function, or disrupts the microbiome.

This is arrogance.

And it is no wonder it exists in a centralized paradigm.

The centralization happens at many scales.

Infectious disease is at the level of the organism.

General medicine broadly focuses at organs.

Endocrinologists, for example, focus on cellular communication.

Geneticists on nucleic acids.

Each silo'd and centralized itself.

This centralization gives rise to an attack vector on the practice.

For example, a charlatan may learn a few things, pretending to be a doctor.

But does the same thing for every patient - e.g. bloodletting done wrong.

Whereas the decentralized traditionalist knows that every technique has its place, and so uses bloodletting sparingly and selectively.

One's making money.

The other is practicing medicine.

Traditional medicine was the original decentralized medicine.