Alternative Medicine Combat New Diseases
Alternative Healing Medicine
What does Alternative Medicine such as Homeopaths, Chiropractors, Nutritionists, Massage Therapists, Holistics, and Ayurveda practitioners have to offer a society that boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world?
Why are people flocking to health food stores, with their lotions and potions, and what keeps them going back for more?At the same time, more and more Americans have been affected by 'newly discovered chronic degenerative diseases such as AIDS and chronic fatigue syndrome, conditions that Western medicine can't cure. "There has been a real shift in the way people think about their health,"says Andrew Weil, M.D., a teacher of alternative medicine."People are realizing that conventional medicine is expensive and sometimes dangerous--and not always effective." I have enjoyed the healing benefits of Alternative Medicine to raise four healthy children and thirteen grandchildren, and I am a firm believer in it.
Complementary Alternative Medicine
Many patients are also attracted to the alternative practitioner's emphasis on treating the whole person--mind, body and spirit. In this age of managed care and impersonal group practices, patients find this individualized approach particularly appealing.A growing number of people are turning to complimentary and alternative medicine--simple, traditional, decidedly low-tech methods of preventing illness and solving everyday health problems. Rising health care costs is certainly a factor in the recent surge of interest in natural medicine. People are taking more control of their destinies as far as health is concerned. They have to, because with the cost of health care, they can't afford not to.
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Herbal Alternative Medicine
While this medicine has been described as the wave of the future, it's actually much older than Western treatments such as surgeries and antibiotics.Experts estimate that Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India have been around for 5,000 years. Many alternative medicines have been used successfully for thousands of years. Each culture has practiced traditional methods of healing and passed them down from generation to generation. Homeopathy, in fact, was as big as allopathy, the type of medicine practiced by conventional doctors, in the early nineteenth century, according to David Edelberg M.D., an internist and medical director of the American Holistic Center/Chicago, one of the largest alternative treatment facilities in the country. He says that "there were dozens of 'eclectic' medical colleges in the nineteenth century, which taught an approach to medicine that ultimately became naturopathy," a type of medicine still practiced today that uses a number of alternative techniques, including Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Massage, Hydrotherapy, Nutritional Counseling, Herbal and Vitamin therapies.
Alternative Therapy Treatment
While the term alternative medicine may conjure up some
pretty exotic images, many of these therapies are more familiar
than you think.
If you've ever massaged your temples to ease a headache, applied
an ice pack to a sprained ankle or listened to your car radio to
de-stress during a traffic jam, you've already practiced some
simple natural healing techniques.
Most of us know we can bolster our diets with vitamin supplements
or drink prune juice to avoid constipation.
What we may not realize is that these are time-tested therapies
and they're usually cheaper, safer and better for what ails us
than painkillers, laxatives or after-work cocktails.
Natural Healing
Even mainstream doctors have begun to recommend natural, drugless therapies to treat both everyday complaints and serious illnesses.Dietary modifications, for instance, has become the weapon of choice against a number of diseases that would have been treated mainly with prescription drugs a generation ago. "We know that many conditions are caused by the wrong diet and can be reversed by the right diet," says Neal Barnard, M.D., president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. "Heart disease, cancer, weight problems, arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure--they can all be treated to some degree with foods." The principal goal of natural healing is to break the cycle of dependency, to get people well and keep them out of the doctor's office when it's not necessary. Changing behavior is hard. Alternative practitioners are better at helping people change behavior because that's what their training emphasizes and because they spend more time getting to know the patient--body, mind and spirit. That is what makes alternative medicine work for so many people.
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