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Holistic Medicine As Compared With Other Medical Practices
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. It upholds the responsibility of educating one’s self to attain the ideal over-all health and well being.
Holistic medicine and Alternative Medicine
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What is Naturopathic Medicine?
Natural therapies have been used to treat disease since our earliest beginnings. This is revealed in the first know written records when the healing power of plants was mentioned. When Naturopathy emerged as a distinct science, no one can say. Early Chinese texts dating to 3000 B.C. discuss herbal treatments. Both the Old and New Testaments speak of the use of herbs and water therapy. Hippocrates was known to treat disease with diet, fasting, hydrotherapy, exercise, and herbs. From these historic origins, naturopathic medicine has developed. In the early 1900s, allopathic medicine gained political power and stifled the naturopathic profession. With the free movement of the1960s, awareness in all things “natural” sparked a steady re-emergence of naturopathic physicians.
Recent pharmaceutical tragedies have led the public to question the efficacy and safety of modern medicine. With each new horrific story on the evening news caused by drugs presented as harmless for years, more people are in search of safe healthcare alternatives. People are also becoming more aware that they are to be responsible for their own health and are seeking information on how to stay healthy and prevent illness. This quest often sends the public looking outside the conventional American medical system. As in the past, naturopathic physicians are offering the alternative in honoring the first naturopathic principle of “primum non nocere” or ‘first do no harm’ by using therapies that are safe and effective.
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Western Medicine Vs Traditional Chinese Medicine
During a casual chat with a dentist friend, we had a difference in opinion on the efficacies of Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine (or “TCM” as it is more popularly known). Neither can she bring herself to concur on my suggestion that Chinese Astrology studies like Bazi (or 4 Pillars) and Zi Wei Dou Shu (ZWDS) are useful towards maintaining good health.
To most people, Western Medicine is scientific, more widely accepted and belongs to the main stream tools toward health and wellness. Hence, it is the defacto choice for them. While I have utmost respect for the advancement Western Medicine have made until today, I have come across enough cases that makes me convinced that TCM is the superior choice to Western Medicine when it comes to achieving good health. I will say TCM is more effective at keeping people in the pink of health while Western Medicine is better in treating sick people. When people are severely ill, naturally Western Medicine is the better choice of treatment.
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