Human body has 10 raise to the power 13 cells and it has 10 raise to the power 14 microbes in it if I have heard the lecture correctly delivered in a seminar abroad. Microbes have different interpersonal relations when alone . They behave differently if they are in company of human beings or with different microbes. Microbe human interaction in fat people and thin people is different . In fatty healthy people and in sick thin people the microbe human interaction may be different. Natural products have an effect on microbes and vice versa. Natural products might influence si RNA levels. Its the microbes, natural products and human body which act together,( a doctor can tell better,) but in eastern way of treatment emphasis is laid on curing mind , body and soul together. Yoga teaches us to unite with some forces who are protector of health and healing and provide tranquility to mind. In my opinion human health is an abstract matter and not a pure biochemistry and molecular biology . Eastern medicine or traditional medicines are based on knowledge passed on generations orally. They don’t have scientific proofs or standardizations of western medicine which are more accurate in curing pathological diseases but diseases of maan (emotions) mixed with changes in body physiology need solitude and cure which can be found in Yoga. No doubt Baba Ramdev became instant hit with millions of people in India and he claims to have cured several diseases even the not so curable diseases mentioned in western world in context of present day knowledge. You may not believe this (and I also don’t believe in this that yoga can cure all diseases) but what is believable is that there are some kind of mechanisms of the body which are not yet understood in medical terms . Like the discovery of siRNA (19 to 24 nt ) which can alter the gene expression at transcriptional and translational level could have impact in providing understanding of complex nature of microbe human body interaction per se. It could well provide answer to intimately related body functions in presence of microbial populations. Curing ailments of body mind and soul are tenets of eastern medicine and curing biochemical reactions based on exact knowledge and testing are cornerstone of western medicine as far as I can understand at the moment. No doubt more and more people suffering from life style diseases are turning to east for cure ? Whether they will be cured or not will depend on their state of mind and faith in therapy. Some one remarked that in east you also need to have eye of faith to understand several practices. Well east is different from west in many ways and so are their health care systems.