It's not that funny. Doctors abroad have long known that thoughts, emotions, feelings,... can greatly affect whether a person gets sick or not, or if they do, how the disease progresses. We've heard of 'psychosomatic' illnesses, right? Negative emotions (anger, stress, sadness, ...) are the cause of many diseases today that appear purely organic (cancer, heart attack, diabetes, ...).
The patient's thoughts (positive or negative) are very important in the course of the disease. After all, why do they always form a second group with placebo in drug trials? And how many times has placebo helped cure a patient? Helped, I wrote, not necessarily cured!
Here, they were dinosaurs just a couple of decades ago and God forbid anyone interferes with their exclusively traditionally conceived medicine where every specialist looks only at their own organ and nothing else, i.e., they don't treat the body as a unit and the connections between organs and also the connection with mentality, thoughts, emotions...
Yeah, then their positions would shake. God forbid they stop being one of the few European countries where alternative medicine is not recognized. Where would we end up if some alternativists now treat certain diseases better than them. Their monopoly would collapse or they'd have to adapt to the new reality which is hard again. All this because of privileges, positions, profit,... That's why opposition to euthanasia too,...
Traditional medicine treats some things better, alternative others. The latter especially things mostly connected with emotions, thoughts, beliefs,... and where traditional medicine only relieves symptoms. E.g. allergies, psychoses (even schizophrenia can supposedly be cured), impotence (as long as it's not a consequence of organic damage i.e. e.g. vascular disease, no one will tell me a healthy 20, 30 year old guy is just impotent),...
In diseases of mixed organic-mental nature, it can at least alleviate symptoms, in purely organic ones (injuries, fractures, ...) of course nothing helps (maybe temporarily relieves pain).