Modern medicine focuses on effectively managing and eliminating the symptoms through surgery or medical treatment. In life threatening situations such as injuries, infectious diseases, or the need of a new organ, it is essential to resort to the effective treatments offered by modern medicine.
Unfortunately, in the case of chronic or auto-immune disease, removing or managing the symptoms does not solve the underlying cause of the disease. Until the underlying cause can be addressed at a deeper level, the body might just repeat the symptom over and over or create a new one in a different location.