• Aromatherapy Treatment – Alternative Medicine

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    Arthritis had Mrs. Thompson grounded for years. She had seen several doctors with no permanent solution to the problem.Read more…
  • Alternative Medicine to Lower Your Blood Pressure

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    Home remedies and homeopathic medicine have begun popular over the years as an alternative to prescription drugs. Many people are not aware that there are also home remedies available to lower your blood pressure. What is nice about a home remedy is the lower cost and eliminating the unfavorable side effects of prescribed medicines.Read more…
  • Stress Relief Provided by Herbal Medicine

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    Chances are, you may not know about the use of herbal medicine to provide stress relief.We certainly can’t blame if you don’t. Herbal medicine, after all, is still trying to gain its former popularity and so many people are still in doubt of its efficacy and prefer to use prescription medicine instead.Read more…
  • How Alternative Medicine Fits in Today's Society

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    Think you don’t know what alternative medicine is? It’s more common than you think, and now has a firm place in the world today. Certain therapies not formerly thought of as legitimate medical treatments are now being used on a more frequent basis to treat a variety of ailments, quite often with endorsement from the medical community.Read more…
  • The Origins of Alternative Medicine

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    The origins of alternative medicine, also known as holistic medicine, can be traced back thousands of years to the very roots of medicine. Many millennia ago, physicians or healers would assess the sick person’s emotional condition in addition to their physical symptoms before beginning treatment. The roots of alternative medicine deal with the symptoms of the “whole” person, not merely the physical signs of illness.Read more…
  • The Definition of Alternative Medicine

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    Have you ever suffered from a horrible headache when you thought the best remedy might be for someone to bash you over the head, or to pull your hair out? Then you might have some experience with alternative medicine!In all seriousness, alternative medicine is not about hurting yourself, but involves investigating other potential methods to treat an ailment besides synthetic drugs.Read more…
  • Holistic Medicine As Compared With Other Medical Practices

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    Holistic medicine is health care that comprises all the aspects of one' s personality to obtain the optimum state of wellness. It encompasses the process of looking into the wholeness of the person including nutritional, physical, environmental, spiritual, lifestyle and social values. Holistic medicine includes virtually all treatments and diagnosis known to achieve balance in personality.Read more…
  • Pain Relief through Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) references acupuncture as being an effective treatment for the management of many types of pain, both acute and chronic.There are 3 proven mechanisms that explain how acupuncture relieves pain; 1. Gate Theory Once inserted, the needle activates the myelinated nervous system fibers which ultimately stops the pain message from getting to the T-cells in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord (closes the 'Gate'). Therefore the pain message does not transmit to the thalamus/cortex in the brain (these areas normally interpret these messages and make you feel pain)2.Read more…
  • Holistic Medicine: What is It?

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    I practice holistic medicine and I’m often asked what that means. Here’s how I define it.The Gift of Time.Read more…
  • Identifying the Different Forms of Herbal Medicine

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    Although there are a lot of positive things to be said when it comes to herbal medicine, is still an undeniable fact however that what we proof we have is not yet enough to make taking herbal medicine completely safe.Hence, when you’re about to try out herbal medicine please make sure to check with your doctor first if what you’re doing wouldn’t be harmful to your body. Secondly, it’s better to be able to identify the different forms of herbal medicine so you’d know if what you’re taking is the real thing or not.Read more…
  • A Look at Alternative Medicine and Conventional Medicine

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    Alternative medicine and alternative therapies are therapeutic practices, which are currently not considered as an integral part of conventional medicine. Conventional medicine is the current mainstream medical system of diagnosis and treatment of disease. However, an increasing desire for wellness, in response to today’s stressful lifestyle and rising incidences of cancer, disease and illness, has led to the rising demand for alternative medicine and therapies.Read more…
  • Alternative Medicine and Therapies in Your Everyday Life

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    Those of us who claim that we do not practice any form of alternative medicine or therapies have missed out considering all the simple remedies that we apply at home.Consider the following examples:-- Do you massage your neck at the back when you have a splitting headache?- Do you put an ice pack on a sprained ankle?Read more…
  • Complementary/Alternative Medicine - What is it Good For?

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    What's in a name?Read more…
  • Siddha Medicine

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    Siddha medicine developed by the Siddhars (The Siddhars were the greatest spiritual scientists on those days, they were the seekers of truth. "SIDDU" means "knowledge or wisdom" and "SIDDHI" means attainment of perfection. One who had attained perfection in life are called Siddhars), which has its origin in South India, is the oldest medical system in the world.Read more…
  • Treating ADD With Alternative Medicine

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    Alternative medicine is a practice which people either live by or laugh at; there does not seem to be any middle ground. When it comes to treating Attention Deficit Disorder, alternative medicine refers to any treatment technique which falls outside the realm of standard behavioral treatments and medication.Dietary intervention is one such treatment in which certain foods are eliminated from a child’s diet to reduce or eliminate the negative effects of ADD.Read more…
  • Magnetic Therapy Backed by Scientific Evidence, Ignored by Conventional Medicine

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    The recent January 2006 issue of the British Medical Journal suggested patients be advised that magnetic therapy has no proved benefits. They argued that only blinded randomized controlled trials can prove medical benefit, and that it is difficult to study magnets in a blinded fashion.The editorial obscures an important truth about research and real world healing.Read more…
  • Holistic Healthcare versus Traditional Western Medicine


    The Western medicine community recently asked the question: Will Alternative Healthcare, a.k.a.Read more…
  • Herbal Medicine in Our Daily Life

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    Herbal Medicine, sometimes referred to as Herbalism or Botanical Medicine, is the use of herbs for their therapeutic or medicinal value. An herb is a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal, aromatic or savory qualities. Herb plants produce and contain a variety of chemical substances that act upon the body.Read more…
  • Dr. Mikao Usui: An Interesting Person In Medicine

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    Born in Japan 1865, Dr. Mikao Usui was the founder of a natural system of healing called Reiki, involving life force energy and the laying of hands.All his life, Dr.Read more…
  • The Roots Of Alternative Medicine

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    Alternative medicine and modern medicine have may differences and whose to say which is best? Today, we expect doctors and medicines to fix whatever ails us instantly and doctors only look at the current physical problem when diagnosing our needs.Alternative or holistic medicine, on the other hand, takes many different factors into consideration before prescribing a cure.Read more…

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