I woke up one morning, feeling like death warmed up. It was a struggle to get out of bed. But I had animals to feed, so made a valiant effort. Every few minutes I had to sit down, to gather my strength.Then I had to phone my patients, another enormous task, to cancel my appointments.Then I thankfully slumped back to bed.But then I became thirsty.And I couldn’t go back to sleep.Eventually I got up and sat in the living room, feeling sorry for myself, possibly dosing.I couldn’t think. It didn’t help being a practising homeopath at that time. There was no energy to work out what I needed.By about lunch time, after getting up to get myself yet another drink of water, I suddenly had a eureka moment.Normally I love tea – actually I’m a bit of a tea-a-holic. And I love it hot and glug it down. All morning I had been sipping at water, which wasn’t entirely due to the fact that I had little energy. I just didn’t feel like tea.Odd.One of the things I most love about complimentary alternative medicine is that it generally individualises you. Everyone is an individual. One size doesn’t fit all. My particular favourite is homeopathy, as this medical modality is all about your unique symptoms.One symptom, like my total exhaustion, wasn’t enough to prescribe a homoeopathic remedy on, as there are many which have this symptom.You need to have a few good symptoms of a particular remedy, to work out if it will help you. Three good symptoms is normally enough for acute prescribing.I knew my condition was acute as I had felt the effects of a cold or flu coming on over a few days. Stupidly, I hadn’t taken any action.So I had two good symptoms – total exhaustion and flu.The third symptom came to me when I realised I wanted to sip water rather than glug tea.The homeopathic remedy Arsenicum album is an enormous remedy, with a huge scope for healing many ailments with many different symptoms. Three of the main ones are exhaustion, desire to sip drinks and flu.Once I started on the remedy, I fell asleep (always a good sign) and then gradually picked up in energy. By late in the afternoon I was up and active. By the following day I was completely recovered.When you look outside the complementary alternative medicine area, can you see any modality which will heal such a condition so fast and so completely? Without side effects?Do let me know if you know of one.Because I’ll eat my hat. Actually I don’t have a hat. I’d have to buy one to eat it…I don’t know very much about other areas of complementary alternative medicine other than homeopathy, as this is such a huge subject it will take me the rest of my life to really understand it. There is so much to learn.But it can also be so simple.A novice home prescriber, armed with a general homeopathic kit, would have had access not only to the remedy, but also to the information to work out which remedy was best suited to my condition.In recent years, there have been global health scares for bird flu, SARS and now swine flu. But every year, globally, millions are affected by flu anyway. As far as homeopathy, my all time preferred favourite complementary alternative medicine goes, the strain of the virus makes not one jot of difference to the effect the remedy will have on you.It’s only your unique symptoms which matter. And they are common in any type of flu.Arming yourself with a quality homoeoapthic home prescribing kit, with clear instructions, and you’re taking control of your life.But remain open to the other modalities of complementary alternative medicine, too. They all work with your body, so can assist you.
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My Favourite Complementary Alternative Medicine is Homeopathy
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010What are Complementary and Alternative Medicines?
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Conventional medical practices in the United States revolve around the concept of diagnosis and treatment of disease through the use of manufactured drugs. Health care is focused on treating existing conditions with synthetic and chemical treatments rather than prevention or natural cures. Complementary and alternative medicine systems (CAMs) are usually health care philosophies and techniques that have existed for centuries and are based in prevention and treatment using natural remedies. As people become more concerned with what goes on in and around their bodies, complementary and alternative medicine has gained in popularity, and scientific research is beginning to show clinical evidence for its effectiveness.
Complementary medicines are treatments used together with conventional medicine to treat existing conditions. If a person has cancer, for instance, it might not be wise to discard the use of surgery or chemotherapy. In this case, though, there are complementary treatments available that can aid the conventional techniques and help to lessen the adverse side effects of conventional treatments. One of these is the use of Gerson therapy, a system that uses a combination of thirteen organic juices to detoxify the body. Using herbal dietary supplements such as ginger and ginseng to reduce the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy has also been found effective.
Alternative medicines are health care systems that are used in place of conventional medicine, and they often focus on prevention through a healthy lifestyle and treatment through natural remedies. Ayurveda is an example of an alternative medicine system. Ayurveda was developed centuries ago in India, and it focuses on using nutrition, the body, the mind, and the spirit in disease prevention. When disease does occur, herbal remedies are used for treatment, but the main idea is to prevent sickness by living a healthy life.
Complementary and alternative medicines fall into five categories. Alternative medical systems, such as traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, revolve around an entire lifestyle philosophy. Mind-body interventions focus on using the mind’s ability to positively affect the body’s symptoms and general function. This includes the use of meditation, prayer, and therapy through the use of art. Biologically based therapies use naturally occurring substances including herbs, diet, and vitamins to prevent and treat disease. Manipulative and body-based methods such as chiropractic treatments use manipulation and movement of the body. Energy therapies use energy fields for treatment. This category includes two types of therapies; one is biofield therapy, in which energy fields that surround the body are affected to promote healing, and the other is bioelectromagnetic therapy, which employ the use of electromagnetic fields.
Although the medical establishment does not generally accept most complementary and alternative medicines as replacements for more conventional methods, many people are finding them useful as they search for a better design for living. As you look through the world of CAMs, keep an open mind. Perhaps you’ll find a way to unleash your full potential on the road to a healthier you.
Cervical Cancer and Its Complementary Treatments
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010What It Is
The cervix is an organ that is only present in women, and connects the uterus to the vagina. When cells in the cervix start to undergo abnormal changes, known as pre-cancerous changes, then this can represent the early stages of cervical cancer.
There are two types of cervical cancer: squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. Of these, we know that the vast majority of cases are squamous cell carcinomas. Cervical cancer can be picked up early and prevented from occurring through regular screening, which is recommended for women of all ages.
Causes of Cervical Cancer
We should make it clear that, as with all cancers, cervical cancer is caused by factors such as a weak immune system, an acidic pH balance, oxygen deprivation and toxins in the body. However, it is also commonly caused by certain types of HPV (human papilloma virus). Some of these can cause genital warts and, as such, cervical cancer can arise as a result of a sexually transmitted infection.
Smoking is also known to lead to cervical cancer, and we know that a combination of an HPV and smoking, or an HPV and another sexually transmitted disease, can lead to a greater level of risk.
Cervical Cancer Symptoms
The most common symptom for cervical cancer, and the one that sends most women to the doctor in the first place, is abnormal vaginal bleeding. This could include bleeding outside of the regular period, bleeding after the menopause or any other type of bleeding.
Pain during sexual intercourse is also known to be a symptom, as is bleeding directly after intercourse. Pain related to sex is known as dyspareunia in the medical community.
Conventional Treatments
If the cancer is confined to the outside layer of the cervix, then we have the option of a number of surgery treatments that can be completed to remove the affected cells. The most common include laser surgery, which kills the cancerous cells using a laser beam; cryosurgery, which is the killing of cancerous cells through freezing; and a cone biopsy, which is when a piece of cervical tissue affected by the cancer is completely removed.
These procedures are fine if the cancer is in its early stages, but if the cancer is invasive and has managed to get inside the outer layer, then a hysterectomy is the most common form of surgery. This could either be a simple hysterectomy or a radical hysterectomy, which is more serious. However, both involve the removal of the uterus, making it impossible to become pregnant.
Chemotherapy and radiation are also commonly used if the cancer has spread, but we would warn you that these include a lot of unpleasant side effects, including hair loss, weakness and nausea.
Alternative and Complementary Treatments
Due to the nature of the side effects associated with conventional treatments, many people opt instead for alternative treatments, which have very few, if any, side effects and provide a far more natural way to cure different types of cancer.
We can recommend the Budwig Diet as one of the most effective alternative therapies in combating any type of cancer, including cervical cancer. This special diet, administered under the guidance of trained experts, has at its heart a very simple idea which has proved time and time again to be a powerful anti-cancer treatment.
The basic premise of this completely natural alternative treatment is that in order to grow, cancer cells require glucose. The Budwig Diet aims to reduce the amount of glucose in the blood through reducing the amount of sugar in the diet of the cancer patient, and is one of the most effective alternative treatments. However, some programmes go even further and recommend the complete absence of sugar from the diet. This leads to the body using less insulin, and the cancer cells therefore cannot grow.
The Budwig Diet should be specially administered, but at its heart it is a diet rich in raw vegetables, which prevents sugars from being consumed. The immune system also strengthens as a result, allowing the body to fight the weakened cancer cells more effectively.
As well as the Budwig Diet, we can also recommend a number of other alternative therapies which aim to combat cancerous cells in the body. These consist of emotional healing, which is the balancing of the meridian through the increasing of inner strength; biophotonic light therapy, which is the targeting of cancer cells using completely natural UV rays; massage therapy, which is the use of different types of massage to stimulate the circulation of energy; and techniques such as using SCIO Energetic Frequency Equipment, which aims to destroy the cancer cells through mechanical vibration.
Complementary & Alternative Medicine treatments for Diabetes
Friday, January 1st, 2010Now-a-days Alternative Medicines or Complementary Medicines and gaining popularity, because of its curing power with out any side effects.
Diabetes details: Diabetes means your blood glucose is too high. Diabetes is the inability of the body to ‘produce insulin – type 1 diabetes’ or ‘proper use of insulin – type 2 diabetes.
Allopathic medicine Diabetes: In allopathic treatment, they consider and treat everyone in a similar manner and drugs are used for treatments. These drugs are used to stop or block one particular function of an organ. It is not trying to correct the root cause and only gives temporary relief. Also they use only one force (compared to war utilizes land force only) that is the medication for diabetes.
Alternative medicines Diabetes: treatments they consider human as a whole and each human is treated differently for the same disease. They are not only considering the disease alone, but also its causes – physical and mental (psychological) reasons.
Homeopathic remedies diabetes:
For example homeopathic remedy is concern they find the correct remedy by looking for symptoms of:
Homeopathic remedies for diabetes, different peoples are treated with a different medicine with respect to their individual physical, mental, modalities and causation.
Ayurvedic herbal remedies for diabetes:
It is also called as herbal medicines, herbal therapy, herbal treatment, herbalism and botanical medicines.
The herbal medication is prepared from plants, use medicinal herbs to prevent and treat diseases and ailments or to promote health and healing. Either the dried plant as a whole or a specific part of it (root, leaves, fruit, flowers or seeds) is formulated into suitable preparation. Ayurvedic natural remedies are not only control blood sugar, but at the same time it will take care of kidney, liver, eye and hearts. These are the organs that may be affected by long term of diabetes. Also the carbohydrate metabolism is by liver, kidney, pancreas and small intestine. Thus the herbal medicines correct these organs for proper utilization and elimination of the glucose. That is, it corrects the root cause.
Yoga poses diabetes:
Yoga refers to be the traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. It has the ability to balance body, mind & spirit. This discipline has curative power for many chronic diseases that include diabetes, by activating glandular systems responsible for the illness. In the case of diabetes, yoga poses give mild and gentle massages to the internal organs such as pancreas, liver, intestine, etc. These organs are responsible for the diabetes cause.
Acupressure for diabetes:
Accupressure is also called as acupressure or healing touch. TCM relies on a number of basic principles which have been refined over thousands of years of medical practice. One of the major principles of this medical tradition is the idea that health is governed by the flow of life force, or qi, through the body. Interruptions in this flow can lead to medical complaints, as the body’s balance of energy is disrupted. TCM practitioners also believe that disruptions in the flow of qi affect specific organs, and that all symptoms can be linked with a particular organ.
In the case of diabetes many patients have found that has either cured or decreased the severity of their diabetes.
Reflexology for diabetes:
Reflexology massage or zone therapy is particularly a healing art by applying pressure (using the hand, fingers and especially the thumbs). This massage is specifically done to feet, hands and some times even to the ears. It activates the acupoints which are interrelated to the organs in the body.
That is why reflexology massage is showing positive impact on promoting self-healing capabilities on diabetes.
Complementary Medicine:
All the above alternative medicine treatments are also called as complementary medicine. The name “complementary medicine” developed as the two or more systems began to be used alongside (to “complement”) each other.
So if we use all the above said alternative medicines together (used all the medicines at the same time) there is a amazing result because one complements the other;
If you use all the above said complementary medicines each works differently, then the chance of cure for the disease is very high.
For example purpose we used to define alternative medicine diabetes, it is not only for diabetes but also for cholesterol, high and low blood pressure, eye problems, etc. I named a few the list is endless.