Practical Medicine???

I wonder how practical the use of medicine really is? If this question is a little unclear let me try to clear it up before I add my opinions on the topic.

I studied chinese medicine and acupuncture for 2.5 years before I started my journey into modern medicine. Back then I thought I was not getting enough information from my classes and I searched to understand the human body better, so I went to learn medicine. One thing I can say for sure is that I do understand much more of the biology and chemistry and physics and molecular processes in the body, but do I really understand the body more? That question is still not answered to me.

While I was learning acupuncture I felt I had the power to "heal", I could always poke a friend with a needle and treat his headache, stomach ache or just get him to clam down. Of course this was not always successful due to my human errors in finding the right acupuncture point or just due to the fact that acupuncture is not an exact science and not always the results are clear and immediate but at least I could treat, I wasn't afraid to try, whats the worst that could happen???? That is what I call a practical medicine. Medicine that can be used on a day-to-day basis and give results.

Today after 6 long years and even longer nights of studying and remembering all kinds of crazy syndromes and pharmaceutical names I can't even treat my wife when she wakes up in the middle of the night to vomit and has a diarrhea from hell. I forgot the acupuncture points for vomiting and nausea, I don't have any needles left for treating...all I could do was tell her to hold on tight its probably a virus and tomorrow she would feel better.

I was right, it was a virus, a 24 hour flu, but what about the practical part of my studies what about the practical medicine??? I felt useless. Yes I could have gave her a prescription for some anti emetics or open an IV fluid line, but I could do nothing to help her symptoms make her feel better right there and then. "We'll go to the doctor in the morning" "I'll find an open pharmacy maybe they can help". Modern medicine heals and prolongs life but in order to fully treat we need the equipment and the computers and the microscopes and the chemicals...we forgot how to heal using nature, we forgot how to look at a human body and not only at the numbers of a blood test.

I believe the combination between the two worlds is the future, and I hope one day to find a way to implicate both worlds into my practice and to be able to truly heal. Am I naive? Am I innocent? Time will tell....time will tell.