What are the advantages and the disadvantages of alternative medicines?!?!?!
Question:
What are the advantages and the disadvantages of alternative medicines?!?!?
I would be grateful if people could reply with their general views on alternative medicine, its advantages and disadvantages. It would also be useful if you could provide give me clear reasons why you use them, if someone tried them.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks for your time.
Answers:
General views or opinions? Since there are no clinical trials to back up the results for alternative medicine, it's like comparing apples and oranges. Clinical trials is the arena of modern medicine. So the answer has to be given for things I've used and gotten results. Alternative medicine, better knows as holistic health therapy or traditional medicine, has been around a lot longer than modern medicine. Acupuncture, feng shui, herbal, reflexology, shiatsu, auyervedic, have been around a long time but have not shared the popular propaganda of modern medicine. Alternative medicine addresses the cause of a manifested problem and seeks to cure it through a holistic approach to the illness. A chines herbalist can virtually cure any physical problem with the help of the person in need of help. Unfortunately sick people rarely stay cured. Instead they repeat all the same bad habits that got them sick in the first place. If the sick person is cured and learns how to stay that way, then alternative medicine works. Another factor in healing is your personal beliefs. If you believe in a modality, then it will work for you. If you don't believe in a modality, then it won't work for you. This may sound strange but its true. Many people believe in modern medicine, so most of the time it works. But it's not a cure, only a patch because it doesn't address the cause of the problem, which holistic medicine does.
I wish I could give you the definitive answer your looking for but this has to be your search and decision. Choose a modality, study it and find out for yourself. Then choose another modality, study it and again learn. Being a healer isn't easy, but it is rewarding to the soul.