WHY are both Spirituality and Alternative Healing grouped in with Astrology?

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5. I had posted elsewhere that I thought Alt Health ought to go in the Health forum

and I believe that for a number of reasons.

First and foremost, alt health is MAINSTREAM. It's a multi-billion dollar industry. You see it everywhere on TV these days from Dr. Oz to the syndicated Doctors program that comes on in my area right before The View. You'll find herb-drug interaction charts and information on many of the very well-respected medical sites. In fact, you find some actually GREAT herbal information on some of the very well-respected medical sites. Here's one: University of Maryland http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ Drugstores and WalMart even carry a number of herbal supplements. Herbs aren't all there is to "alt med," but they're a big part of it. And get a load of this!! -- the line of supplements for which I'm an independent distributor -- Nature's Sunshine Products -- has just introduced a handful of FLOWER ESSENCE REMEDIES! Can you believe it?

Second, anyone new to alt health and curious could very, very easily be turned off and turned away by lumping it in with Astrology and Spirituality. Now, we all know that EVERYTHING has to do with Spirituality (since we ARE Spirit having a physical experience), but not everybody gets that (hah! often not even me!!), so it's just an unfortunate grouping, frankly.

I just feel really strongly about it, especially since there seems to be ZERO discussion of alt health issues here.