What are the benefits of non conventional medicine?

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What are the benefits of non conventional medicine?

Answer 1

The IBASI Pharmacist had a good answer. A good friend's husband was supposed to have surgery on his spine. After a month of going to my chiropractor, no surgery was necessary.

I would like to add that a lot of conventional medicines that are being prescribed - like statins to lower cholesterol - have not been proven to work, and in fact are dangerous for many many people. The BIG PHARMA companies have turned our doctors into drug pushers, who are hawking unnecessary and dangerous drugs.  I think there is a proper place for conventinoal medicine. It might work better to cure or halt cancer, but there are many areas in which it does not succeed, on in which another approach might be better.

Answer 2

I agree with James, I've been waiting for an answer like that, I couldnt have done a better job.Natural medicines are on another  level when compared to synthesized pharmaceutical drugs. If anybody honestly believes that a manufactured treatment could do better than a treatment provided by mother earth, wow, you are dumb. It comes down to the logical understanding of how our bodies interact with all external and internal stimuli of any kind. Oxidation therapies specifically, are world changing concepts.

Answer 3

For thousands of years we (the human) lived off the earth and never had chemical medicine shoved down our throats. When that happened is when the human body started its decline to sickness. We were not designed to take chemicals.

“You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.” - Statement By Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner.

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Answer 4

Hi, I am a licensed Pharmacist, Ordained Healing Minister, as well as a practitioner of 'non-conventional medicine', (specifically Energy, or Divine medicine, Integral/ Contemplative Psychology, and Traditional Chinese Medicine).  I have been using, studying and helping other people with CAM and Alternative Medicine modalities such as the above for over 15 years. Here are some benefits I have discovered:

1. Cheaper and more accessible than Medical Doctors/Modern Western Healthcare system.

2. Chiropractors, Naturopathists and esp. Acupuncturists do hands-on-healing, personally care greatly for you in a one-to-one therapeutic relationship, go out of their way to help you and work with you, and give you 5-10 x more time in the office with them than Medical Doctors.

3. For people with sensitive constitutions, it is often more gentler, effective and faster than conventional medicine, with no or fewer side-effects and risk of complications.

4. Most often, as a Pharmacist in hospital or in a community retail store, when modern western allopathic medicine has failed repeatedly to find the problem or cure it, CAM or Alternative medicine is the opposite. For example, migraine is hard to treat and can not be cured by Medical Doctors, but I can easily relieved it to zero pain, by hand, in under 1 minute at the pharmacy counter.

Cocaine and nicotine addiction has poor success rates with western drugs, is expensive and causes alot of suffering. The 5-point auriculartherapy protocol (ear acupuncture) daily 20 minute sessions x 10 has an 80% permanent cure rate. And so on and so on.....I have personally witnessed dozens of such cases of alternative or CAM medicine being better, safer, cleaner, easier than the pills/ radiation/ surgery options of Medical Doctors.

5. CAM and Alternative Medicine focuses on preventive medicine, mind-body-spirit holistic medicine, curing the root cause versus suppressing symptoms (ie allopathic medicine which is what Medical Doctors do with pills, radiation & surgery), often concentrating in teaching the patient how to avoid the problem or self-heal with education and skill building. It often fills a void in a patients self-worth, self-esteem and self-understanding, lending support to a more content, stress-free life.

6. More and more clinical scientific studies are being published in reputable journals and insurance companies are covering more and more in CAM and Alternative Medicine like acupuncture, therapeutic massage and chiropratic therapy. The United States of America - Veterans Administration routinely staffs Chiropracters in its VA Hospitals and Clinics with great clinical and economic success.

7. Is being seriously studied by the National Institutes of Health and the National Commission on Complimentary and Alternative Medicine for saving billions of healthcare $$dollars$$ and millions of lives in the near future and for generations to come for a strong and free United States of America. It is in fact, a huge part of saving the deep national budget deficit, which is a matter of national security and the future of a strong and free democratic society and world super power! Wow! lol

Answer 5

Scam (complementary and alternative medicine--CAM) therapies are just that... scams.  But they work for the gullible by providing a placebo affect.  Sometimes people will pretend that they work, just so that they don't embarrass the person performing the "therapy" or "outing" them as frauds.

Answer 6

It depends on what type of alternative medicine therapy you are talking about.

Some of the benefits are:

-They treat the patient in a holistic manor, Treats the body as a complex organism, not a machine

- Treat the cause of disease, rather than suppressing symptoms

- Herbs/Supplements work in a synergistic manor, unmatched by any pharmaceutical drug, that have one/few active ingredient.

- No/little side effects. The side effects of drugs are harsh, and can cause further problems, like liver failure ect. Which will require you to take even more drugs. Itrogenic illness is rife.

Herbal remedies do work and have been shown using vigourous double blind clinical trials to be superior to placebo, and dare i say, in some cases superior to drugs. Dozens of remedies have been analysed, Professor Edzard Ernst the UK's first complementary medicine professor of Exeter University/Peninsula Medical School, has analysed the clinical trials, and has found with his team that the following herbs work using vigorous criteria, they have been called the SuperHerbs, and include:

Super Herbs

St, John's Work - Helps with Mild/Moderate depression

Black Cohosh - Combats some of the effects of menopause

Devil's Claw - Acts an a anti-inflammatory, and joint pain

Saw Palmetto - Can relieve an enlarged prostate, and help men urinate better

Garlic - Lowers cholesterol and blood pressure

Hawthorne - Helps with heart/cardiovascular conditions, like Angina Pectoris

Horse Chestnut - Helps with the symptoms of varacous veins.

Ginkgo Biloba - Solid proof, that it improves cognition and memory

These have been proven scientifically, with vigourous clinical trials to work. [Source: BBC Alternative Medicine - Herbs]

Any true scientist will research before disregarding anything. Do not comment on things that you have no knowledge of.

Herbs work in a synergistic manor, far superior to any drug and more complex. 'Until man can replicate a blade of grass, nature can laugh at man's so called scientific-knoweldge' Thomas Ederson {inventor of the light bulb}

'There will come a time when a liar is belived to tell the truth, and one whom tells the truth is believed to be a liar'

'Knowledge will be taken away (by the death of people of knowledge), and ignorance will prevail.'