If the Buddha thought that social work would be helpful for people at least, he would not have preached the Dhamma and its way. He would have been a social worker or another Samsara "Wheelturner"
Me too, very important. If there is no more "traditional" or "allowed" medicine and knowledge about it, there would be no more possible treatment for sick monks and those who take precepts serious wlaking a holy life. So to care and lern about it as a layman and to transfere knowledge as a Bhikkhu is a very meritious deed. But I guess we really run off-topic.I can never accept that traditional medicine is a 'beastly science'
A disagreement left?