What does holistic mean?
I have googled and read and read and googled but I just cant seem to grasp what it actually means. Its driving me nuts. Send help
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its an idea that you cant take something apart bit by bit and study each bit to then understand the whole. you have to look at the entire system all at one time or you cant understand it.
This is mostly wrong, you absolutely can learn useful information about most things if you take them apart, but think about a human, if you strip a human down to the individual organs and try to study them, no matter how hard you study, you will never find nations within their organs, nor anything that would lead you to understand nations. Its only when you leave all the parts together in a human, and the human in a group of thousands, that you can begin to study what a nation is and how it functions.
Its often used in alternate “medicine” to explain why some pseudoscience works, and to take a jab at allopathic (or western) medicine
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