Alternative medicine means different things to different people. Alternative medicine encompasses many different approaches, from massage to Chinese medicine and yoga. Alternative medicine means practices or medicines used instead of the usual or standard ways of treating diseases or illnesses. Examples of complementary and alternative medicine are meditation, yoga, and dietary supplements like vitamins and herbs. Alternative medicine means that it is different from the dominant healthcare system and potentially can replace it.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is the world’s oldest continuously practiced medical system and is used by one-third of the world’s population as a primary healthcare system. Health is defined as a state of physical well-being, mental alertness, social adjustment, and spiritual development. Health care is not about drugs and the cost of drugs.
Conventional Medicine
Conventional medicine is continuing to lose market share. More and more people want options beyond what many consider to be essentially high-tech slash, burn, and poison medicine. Conventional medicine describes services that treat the symptoms of a disease or illness with prescribed medications and surgeries. It treats the ailing part of the body but may not address the underlying causes of the illness or disease.
Traditional practitioners don’t express hopefulness when their medicine fails, as they treat diseases first and then people second. On the other hand, alternative practitioners often encourage patients to be hopeful even when the situation is hopeless, as they aim to treat their patients’ minds, bodies, and souls.
Medicine is directly related to biomedicine and health sciences. Today, the term ‘Medicine’ refers to the fields of surgery, clinical medicine, and medical research. Medical mistakes appear to be increasing, and if they are not, then at the very least, their publicizing is increasing. It makes people wary.
Herbal Medicine
Herbal medicine is a booming industry in the United States. The American market for herbal remedies has doubled in the last couple of years. However, herbs may be harmful if taken for the wrong conditions, used in excessive amounts, combined with prescription drugs or alcohol, or used by persons who don’t know what they are doing. Just because an herbal remedy is natural does not mean it is safe!
Acupuncture
Acupuncture needles are usually inserted to a depth of about a quarter of an inch into the skin. The therapist gently twists or twirls them for up to 10 minutes, leaving them in five to 20 minutes longer, or stimulates them with a weak electrical current or heats them with a burning herb such as mugwort (see moxibustion). Acupuncture was used as an illustration of medical irrationality before James Reston’s fortuitous appendicitis brought it to the United States. From the impact of the LaLeche League on the advisability of breastfeeding to current studies of botanical medicines such as ginger, echinacea, and ginkgo biloba, folk, and alternative medicines have continuously influenced medical research and practice.
Aromatherapy
- The Scented Home Guide – For anyone who loves herbs, essential oils, and natural fragrances, a wonderful way to improve daily happiness is to use them to scent the home. I have listed some daily suggestions that I have found enjoyable. Many also make easy and unusual gift ideas.
- Attraction Oil Recipe – Based on an oil recipe handed down to me
Pet Aromatherapy Tip – If you have dogs and they travel with you in the car, you may want to try this carpet freshener.
- 1 cup baking soda with 40 drops of essential oils.
- Choose from Lemon, Grapefruit, Bergamot, Tea Tree, Litsea Cubea, Cedarwood, and Patchouli.
Mix and sprinkle over the carpet. Let it sit overnight, then vacuum. The essential oils will deodorize and help repel fleas.
Essential Oils
- What You Should Know About Essential Oils—Pure, unadulterated essential oil is tough to come by and can be very expensive. One reason is that it can take as many as 500 to 2,000 pounds or more of raw plant material to produce just a pound of pure essential oil.
Healing
- Easy Panic Attack Cures Tips– We first need to figure out the nature of anxiety to find a therapy. So, let us start. Each person has their own set of fears. As a youngster, you can be terrified of bogeymen under the bed or demons that worry you at night. As teenagers, you come across several anxieties on your first day of school or before an important test. Do we outgrow fear?
- Best Meditation Music—Music has been used in Meditation since its beginning. Certain music has healing benefits for those who meditate, as music influences one’s mood and mind.
- Science Proves Psychic Healing #3
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Herbs and Plants
- Power Foods – Why we need them – Many doctors and health experts say that we should eat “superfoods,” but what are superfoods, and why should we eat them?
- Aloe Vera and nausea– For people who suffer from nausea, aloe vera can provide relief and help them on their way to recovery. When a person feels nauseous, it means there is a problem in the stomach or digestive tract. Aloe vera is like a huge basket that has almost everything a sick stomach needs to feel better.
- Simple way to make any herbal oil – make an oil out of leaves, seeds, and fruits of most herbs
- Black Tea Benefit – Fights Cavities – Lots of Black tea benefits have been proven. Recently, research from the Chicago College of Dentistry showed one more black tea benefit—black tea fights cavities. They found that if people rinsed their mouths with black tea multiple times a day, they got less plaque buildup than people who rinsed their mouths with water. So it reduces the possibility of cavities.
- Chinese Tea and a Healthy Heart – Many studies in 2006 reaffirmed the array of potential health benefits of Chinese tea drinking, especially those related to heart health.
- Herbs to avoid during pregnancy
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Reiki
- Reiki Healing and Reiki Therapy—Reiki can be used for healing only by people who are attuned to it. One must understand that the mind exists not only in the brain but also throughout the body; therefore, negative thoughts get collected in the aura, restricting the flow of “Ki.”
- Reiki Meditation
One has to place one’s hands in prayer, close one’s eyes, and bring all one’s awareness to the tip of the middle or fire finger. When one’s mind wanders, one must press the fire fingers together and refocus.