The blood as a diagnostic tool in chronic illness with obscure microbial involvement: A critical review

Abstract

Over many decades, practitioners of alternative and complementary medicine have used the study of the living human blood to guide nonmainstream treatment strategies. Schools of thinking developed over time, teaching practitioners an alternative vocabulary to what was being observed by microscopy observations of their patients’ blood. This was at times where mainstream medicine considered the blood a sterile environment, and alternative claims of seeing bacterial and fungal forms were disregarded as ignorant and unscientific.