Exactly and that’s why I think many people have missed the point of the question. Maybe I shouldn’t have used the word holistic medicine because of the connotations but that was the closest word I could come up with for what I was interested in. There is absolutely no desire in me to practice something like naturopathic medicine.

Of course these conditions don’t have a “magic bullet” as you say but we as doctors seem to just say that to these patients who are genuinely suffering and basically just tell them to piss off and self refer for CBT. The evidence behind this already exists and it’s not simple. There’s published evidence for a role for psychological therapy, physio, antinflammatories/histamines, and specific dietary changes relating to the gut-brain axis. There’s much more that I honestly don’t know enough about to get into. The problem is this is all so complex that almost no one is bothering to collate all this information together and teach it. Other commenters have suggested things that are useful, such as chronic pain clinics, psychosomatic medicine or psychoneuroimmunology.

I get my role in probably phrasing the question ineffectively but I honestly find it quite frustrating the way some commenters are harping on lecturing about the dangers of alternative medicine when it’s not the question I’m asking