In ancient China, a physician was paid as long as a client remained healthy.
Prevention: live healthy to stay healthy.
Without medication flu cures in 14 days. With, it last 2 weeks.

Often placebos are at least as effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

And if it goes wrong, there are quite a few alternatives. Those are probably less harmful than what pharma wants to sell us. From remedies of grandma to herbal medicine.
http://www.herbmed.org/

(In relation to the security of the site, most links are not active, you can google them, if they are https they will be activated again later.)

Homeopathy works (?) with highly diluted substances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

Would sometimes bring relief and relaxation: sauna, steam room or sweat lodge.
Perfect to combine with one of the several types of massage. http://www.massagetherapy101.com/

Gong therapy https://www.healingsounds.com/ or http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1103/how-do-ear-candles-work, or a range of other possibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_branches_of_alternative_medicine

Whether you are looking for exercise and back problems http://osteopathyontario.org/about-osteopathy/manual-osteopathic-treatment-methods/ at osteopathic therapy?
Manual therapy is also called manipulative therapy https://www.journals.elsevier.com/manual-therapy/

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“It is not a sign of health, to be adapted to a fully sick society." Yiddu Krishnamurti