Should witchcraft be considered a real profession? - Not magic, but using natural remedies and common sense for heathcare

[Betonhaus]

There's multiple interpretations of what a witch is, but I'm going to go with the one where they create medicines and cures using locally grown ingredients such as witch hazel and aloe Vera, and teach people how to take better care of themselves in a way they understand, even if they have to lie about how the world works ("there are demons living in the ground, so don't have your outhouse too close to your water well otherwise they can curse your water" "if you carry this great big magic rock up that hill once a day then in a year you'll have a wife")

Ideally they would be get proper medical training at the nurse level or higher, with a focus on finding medicines that the patient can grow and make themselves. They could be consultants that regularly go to the patient's home and see what the environment is and identify things that could be the sources of ailments. And they can give a proper medical explanation on demand, but have the ability to explain the core of the issue in a way that the patient understands and accepts.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Deus vult, burn in Hell witch. Haven't your ways subverted our civilization enough nowadays?

 

[C. G. B. Spender]

Could we make sure they are really witches? I have few suggestions on how to field test them.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

if they work with chickens, then yes, it is a legit profession.

 

[Coberald]

Only if it means we can take their welfare away.

 

[Nero Fiddled]

Nothing wrong with common sense healthcare and using natural remedies, as long as you are realistic enough to accept that you can't fix everything, and know when to go for mainstream healthcare.

As for it being a profession - I've seen reports that the herbal medicine industry was worth over $100Bn last year, so I'd say that it could very well be a profession for some people.

 

[Foxxo]

Only if they're paid.

 

[The best and greatest]

I know Deepthots/Massdebates is mostly bait.

Even so, what a stupid question

 

[I'm Retarded?]

on the one hand, that's fucking retarded. on the other hand, countries like China and India have professional ooga booga shamans who do shit like sell jugs of cow piss to people to cure their cancer. so maybe when America backslides into being a third world hellhole, we can bring back shit like faith healing and witchcraft as a traditional alternative to the hospitals being run by Chinese and Indian people.

 

[Troonos]

No, it should be considered a mental illness.

 

[Scolopendra Dramatica]

Witch craft is bullshit that poisons any legitimacy of simple and mild home remedies. For example honey and lemon are superb as a soother of bad throats, using local beeswax as a base and closely grown barley and meadowsweet for skin cream can bolster natural defenses against that years hay fever, willow bark being a natural source of aspirin etc are all old kitchen remedies with genuine practical application when paired alongside a good natural diet that can all aid the human body in ways that pharmaceutical companies would rail against, but they're forgotten arts and scoffed at due to all the bullshit mixed in.

"Witchcraft" plays right into the hands of big pharma and practionioners should be rightly burned at the stake.

 

[Mechanical Pencil]

By your logic, my use of jewelweed as a post-poison rinse and plantain salves as anti-inflammatory treatment makes me a witch. I fucking hate your logic, lol.

 

[MadStan]

There's no interpretation except by deluded persons. Witchcraft does not exist. Health nuts, well, there are plenty of those.

 

[Betonhaus]

By your logic, my use of jewelweed as a post-poison rinse and plantain salves as anti-inflammatory treatment makes me a witch. I fucking hate your logic, lol.

There's no interpretation except by deluded persons. Witchcraft does not exist. Health nuts, well, there are plenty of those.

Witchcraft never existed, it was just a way to explain practices where the base methods that it work by aren't explained to the layman.

 

[Chris Konon]

on the one hand, that's fucking retarded. on the other hand, countries like China and India have professional ooga booga shamans who do shit like sell jugs of cow piss to people to cure their cancer. so maybe when America backslides into being a third world hellhole, we can bring back shit like faith healing and witchcraft as a traditional alternative to the hospitals being run by Chinese and Indian people.

Isn’t chiropractic popular in the US? My understanding is that this is a pseudoscience.

 

[Agarathium1066]

Good to know using aloe vera makes me a practicing warlock. Now behold my greatest spell of all, taking a fucking painkiller because my back hurts.

 

[Betonhaus]

So sounds like yes on the concept but fuck no to the label. What would be a better name then "witch" for this role? Assuming that these would be medically trained professionals at the level of a registered nurse, but using plants, routines, and off the shelf products instead of complex pills and expensive drugs?

 

[Adrenochrome Dreams]

That's herbalism, not witchcraft.

Making spells and shit is some kind of psychic-adjacent woo. If people are willing to pay for that shit then yes, it's a profession. Just like tarot card readers.

 

[DSHK]

Witches are just severely mentally ill roasties obsessed with calendars and rocks

 

[Radiator Grilled Cheese]

Only if stake burning is also considered a real profession.