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Alternative Treatment and Medicine for High Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is a major medical problem in the world. An abnormal stress on the circulatory system leads to blood pressure and other related diseases such as stroke, heart attack and heart failure.
Usually, high blood pressure has no specific symptoms, the only way to know how much to have done some medical tests. A periodic check-up blood pressure is essential to monitor their health and to prevent the worsening further. In the standard system for measuring blood pressure, doctors use an arm cuff which is pumped up, and the result is displayed in the establishment.
According to a study, measuring blood pressure at home has a better overall result than the doctors, which is in force. Invention of different blood pressure kits has made the process easier for patients who avoid doctors. Well, a study reported that people have their blood pressure monitored at home show better overall result than those who have done to your doctor `s office. In many cases the reading is inflated due to the tension felt in the doctor `s clinic.
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Questions for your doctor?
I had a rewarding experience last week when one of my patients asked me a range of excellent questions about their condition. I had just diagnosed them as having an anxiety disorder. This patient was clearly concerned about possible medication side effects, having had difficulties with these in the past, and wanted to know in detail about the type of psychotherapy that would be most likely to help them. I recommended that they read about the illness on the handouts that I printed out for them, and on a number of websites I suggested, before coming back to see me again to decide on a course of treatment. It was pleasing to have a good open discussion about their best therapeutic options, to not need to simply prescribe and undertake a treatment program immediately, and to be able to take the time for the patient to do their own research, and then come back and make a joint decision on the best therapy together. This is the way medicine, in non-emergency situations, should be practiced.
Unfortunately this is not the usual way that physicians practice, partly because it takes more time to communicate and arrive at a mutually agreed treatment plan, but also because most patients still do not really plan in advance what questions they should ask. This leads to doctors still having to second guess what patients want to know when they give them an opinion, and of course they therefore often omit telling patients key information of particular importance to that individual.
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5 Reasons To Make Classical Chinese Medicine Your Medicine Of Choice
1. Clinical effectiveness: Chinese medicine, particularly when it is practiced in a Classically-based manner, works. In my scant year of clinical observation, I have seen miracles transpire. I have seen people shackled by various conditions, sometimes all their lives, be simply TRANSFORMED after only a few treatments. Many of you have probably seen this as well. It works for patients – and that’s what medicine is supposed to do.
Yes, I’ve read THAT study, too. Studies have flaws – THAT study has been roundly denounced by a number of people in a number of different ways. I’d be glad to discuss it in another post. Think also about this – Chinese medicine works in a manner entirely different from Western medicine. It’s so different, in fact, that placebo controlled double blind studies may simply be ineffective for displaying what it is that Chinese medicine can do. Clinical studies are another matter, and many show the great effectiveness of Chinese medicine. Where those studies have been negative or inconclusive, I feel that it probably has something to do with the level of Chinese medicine being practiced in the study. That’s why I’m hoping to do (and encourage others to do) clinical studies through Helfgott Research Institute. I’ll certainly post about any future results.
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