Do We Need to Disentangle Magic From Health Promoting Practices?

Even during the middle ages, practices like herbalism were tangled up with witchcraft and had an occult reputation. You really have to disentangle the forbidden, magical occult practices from the wholesome, health promoting medical ones. Occult thinkers like saint thomas aquinas took a reasonable approach in disentangling permissible practices from non permissible ones. But in every age, there are of people who aren't as careful or open minded as saint thomas. There are always people of the its always demons variety, ready to attribute anything involving unfamiliar or occult practices to the devil.