We needs Laws and not just rules

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This post is another step in my effort to give my opinion in how should medicine evolves.
Recently, I started learning about medical nutrition from a naturopathic approach. Before falling into preconceptions, you must realise that naturopathy as a philosophy started with
Hippocrates, as he states:

It is only nature that heals and wherever and whenever possible nature should be given the opportunity to do so.

A modest way to address naturopathic philosophy is to trust our body's innate capability to heal itself and only intervene when it is deemed necessary.
Having said this, this post is not to advocate for or defend the naturopathic medicine philosophy. But, there is an intriguing point that naturopathy has that we should look seriously into.
Naturopathy has a Law called the Law of cure that collect dispersed facts into one simple Law that once well understood can be applied in treating most of not all conditions. This Law is stated by Lindlahr (1913) as

Every acute disease is the result of a cleansing and healing effort of nature.

You may not agree with this Law. However, the effort to decipher nature’s Laws is to be respected. In the medicine we practice we do not have a superseding Law, all what we have are dispersed rules. Rules as appendicitis is treated by surgery and those with suspected MI need to chew an aspirin pill. Having rules and not Laws is a sign of immaturity of the science of medicine. All mature sciences as astronomy, physics and chemistry have Laws.  Yes, we should not come up with Laws just for the sake of it. However, we should at least try to come up with Laws. I think one of the main hinders to the advancement of medicine is that we do not seek the discovery of Laws.

For advancement of medicine I am proposing to:
1. Focus research to finding nature’s Laws, the Laws that govern health and disease.
2. Train physicians in the proper applications of these Laws to real life situations.