What are your thoughts on holistic medicine?
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Holistic medicine utilizes fantasy to produce an imaginary cure. It is noteworthy that holistic 'healers' typically require treatment after treatment after treatment...
I would suggest utilizing licensed medical practitioners that practice evidence based medicine. This means that they review the appropriate studies and reports of thousands, or tens of thousands of case studies and can suggest the statistically best method for treatment based on research and sound medical knowledge.
I think they are more of a psychosomatic cure. I think that if you think you are gettig well you can get well. More like a placebo effect.
You're slightly wrong there is lots of evidence to disprove the worth of holistic medicine.
If it really worked then the big pharmaceutical companies would take and patent it and sell it for millions.
no there is alot of sense in holistic treatments, conventional medicine merely treats the symptoms without looking for the cause, a properly trained holistic therapist will look at your whole lifestyle picture to find the underlying root cause for your symptoms and that along with positive thinking has a far greater success rate them just taking tablets.
with regards to these "big pharmaceutical companies" they base all there products on herbal remedies, only synthetic versions are less successful and carry more side effects.
Over the past ten years I have suffered, at various times, from severe depression, Meniere's disease, gall stones, sciatica, recurrent ear infections, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, dysmennhorea (extremely painful and ridiculously heavy periods) and God knows what else.
Doctors have been consistently useless in treating all of them. My natural therapist fixed the sciatica in about two minutes, the recurrent ear infections were caused by candida which was flourishing throughout my entire digestive system, so by fixing my digestion the ear infections are gone. The restless legs were fixed in one week, the insomnia in a few days, the depression (which was borderline psychosis and which the doctors couldn't even alleviate a little in five years of treatment) took twelve weeks to get rid of, the gall stones (for which I was scheduled to have surgery a month ago) I got rid of in one treatment. My periods are now only mildly uncomfortable and I use about a quarter of the number of pads and tampons I used to use (I used to pass clots about half the size of a golf ball. The doctor told me menstrual blood doesn't clot. I showed him the clots. He shrugged and did nothing.) I have been in remission from Meniere's Disease for almost six years without a single recurrence of symptoms.
My daughter was on antiobiotics all last week for one condition, and the doctor didn't even bother to treat the other two conditions she had, and she was on the verge of being admitted to hospital as her brother was the week before with the same problems. I managed to get her to my naturopath yesterday, and today all of her symptoms are greatly reduced.
My son had severe sleeping problems for the first ten months of his life. One visit to my kinesiologist and he literally started sleeping through from that night on.
I don't really care what other peoples opinions on natural medicine are, because I have seen time and time and time again that they work brilliantly. And even if you could kid adults into thinking they felt better with this stuff, you can't fool a five year old girl or a ten month old baby - they don't understand a damn thing the natural practioners do or say, but it all still works.
The only problem I have with my practioners is that they're so popular it's extremely difficult to get an appointment with them.
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