Alternative Health Is A Better Way
What is alternative medicine and how will it help you
? What some call holistic health, which includes acupuncture, yoga, vitamins, massage, and more, is different than the modern medicine that exists in the United States.
In this country we are used to the typical practice of doctors, who examine the patient, makes an evaluation, with or without tests, and then takes the findings to determine which prescription drug to give the patient, or which surgery is needed. The patient gives his or her history and tries to explain what is wrong, but other than that, the doctor is complete charge.
Have you ever tried to disagree with a doctor. What is wrong with getting another opinion. Your health does not seem to be the doctors top concern, A doctors office sometimes looks like an assembly line. How many patients can we run through today?
The holistic health practitioner is totally different, in that the concern and involvement of the patient is much more important. Holistic doctors see themselves as educators, teaching people how they can heal their own body, since the body is capable of doing the healing without the need of outside influences.
The reason why so many people are against holistic health, is that the patient is required to be involved, and usually must make lifestyle changes, removing bad habits, such as unhealthy eating or drinking habits. Most people would rather take a pill than change their lifestyle, or admit that their health was their own responsibility.
Why would you not want to change your lifestyle if it made you feel better? Why is it so hard to look for information to improve your health? If you are reading this, then you must have some interest in your health.
Making changes is easier, the more life-threatening the disease. How many people will stop smoking when they get lung cancer, but not before? How many people give up sugar, when they find out they have diabetes? How many people change their diet, finally, after they have a heart attack?
There is so much information about how to live a healthy life into our retirement years, but most people still have a painful existence, taking numerous prescriptions, to look forward to. We are so brainwashed into believing whatever happens to us can be fixed with a magic pill, and insurance will pay for it.
Quite often, people do not even look at alternative medicine until they have something wrong, and their insurance will not cover it. Then they look for a less expensive way. Or maybe, they finally look for a different way, when they have given up hope in the medical profession.
Either way, it is usually something dramatic that causes a person to change from their "trusted" family physician. Looking at life from a holistic perspective, means that you see yourself as more than just a body. You have a mind, and a spirit, that also need to be taken care of.
How many things that happen to our body, are caused by something in our mind or our spirit. In this country, the doctor sees his patient as the disease he or she has. If the patient has a mental problem, he or she will be sent to a psychiatrist, but if the problem is spiritual, a pastor or priest will be called on to deal with the problem.
Alternative or holistic medicine, understands that human life is more than just a body. To solve a persons problem, it is best to know the underlying cause of the problem. If a person is overweight because they eat too much of the wrong foods, to solve the problem seems simple. Stop eating the wrong foods, and start eating the right ones.
But it might not be that simple. What reason for eating foods that are not good for us? Worry causes more diseases than almost anything, and if it is not the cause, it certainly makes everything worse. But what is the cause of worry, and how do you get rid of it? A pill is not necessarily the answer.
Western medicine has a role to play in the health of a nation, but a holistic approach seems to be a better way in almost all instances. A healthy nation would be a more productive nation, so would it not be in the best interest in all of us to become more healthy.
by: Rick Carpenter
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