From feeling that something is not right, to deciding to go for help, to taking the doctor's prescription or having an amulet made up, "each step is part of a healing process," avers Chang Hsun. Chang adds, moreover, that the mainstream medical system can't match folk medicine when it comes to giving patients a chance to have their say and be listened to.
的確，從覺得不對勁，到決定去看病，向醫生或神乩說出病症，到服用藥方或符咒，「這每一個過程都是治療的一部分，」張珣表示，民俗療法提供病人說出病徵及傾聽的過程，是一般醫療體系比不上的。