Very approximate "science" otherwise there would not be so many deaths from disease. In addition OUR western medicine is "scientific", ie coming out of petrochemical laboratories, only recently, compared to the non-science of previous millennia and which did not work. no worse. [*] Now medicine called to become that of the future, when big pharma no longer has control over the disease and can no longer obstruct it, it is homeopathy respecting the maxim of Hippocrates: "'First do no harm". after that of Hippocrates always:"may your food be your medicine "Medicine is indeed a science and therefore knowledge, but here I have no experience to say whether the publications are mostly false.
[*] proof of this is the current great mess with a simple influenza virus, but which makes billions waltz!