Archive for February, 2011

Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine is a combined term used for various methods or practices of healing brought in practice by physicians or non-physicians, in addition to or apart from the conventional medicine. It is estimated that a little over 33% of the US population uses some form of alternative medicine that is mainly comprised of remedies derived [...]

Is Alternative Medicine Gaining in Popularity?

Alternative medicine is any practice that is outside of normal Western medicine. It includes a diverse system of natural practices which are becoming a part of conventional medicine. Alternative cures have the potential of helping individuals live healthier lives and engage in preventative measures of wellness. It attempts to treat the person as a whole, [...]

History of Alternative Medicine

History has it that alternative medicine goes back 5000 years to Chinese traditional medicine, Indian (Ayuryedic medicine) and similar healing traditions in many cultures. The common belief was that the energy of the body had to be in harmony with the mind, body and spirit. A doctor merely facilitated the healing by identifying and taking [...]

Multiple Sclerosis – Alternative Medicine That Works

Holistic alternative medicine offers so much more than conventional therapies for MS. It’s not hard to see why our traditional medical authorities are unable to heal a person with MS, since they can’t even figure out what causes it. Their only answer to this painful and debilitating disease is totally symptomatic in nature, which in [...]

The Different Forms of Alternative Medicine

What is alternative medicine? How does it differ from traditional medicine? Basically, it is any kind of medicine that does not conform with the scientific principles of western medicine. Western medicine or traditional medicine has long been the basis for treating any illness. Anything from the common cold to the more complex type of cancer, [...]