Emphysema, COPD & Other Conditions Beaten: 10 Advantages of Alternative Medicine & Natural Remedies
Consider the many potential side-effects they list in the ads of drugs currently on the market. (Uh, no thanks . . . I’d rather keep my disease!)
Alternative medicine is not generally into patenting their substances, or at least is not as dependent upon patents. And their treatments are typically safe when used correctly, or are natural. Yes, even “natural” substances can be unsafe, but they must be used appropriately. Alternative treatments aren’t always successful. But often treatments can easily be modified or changed until something does work.
5. Alternative Medicine Tends To Have A Broader Perspective Of Health and Healing, Allowing More Flexibility and Adaptability When Treating Patients
Mainstream medicine tends to be limited in its approaches and treatments, generally staying solely with medical school practices. How many times have you heard of a doctor giving up on a patient and sending them home to die? Yet, alternative medicine has many types of treatments, and is credited with actually healing a good percentage of patients in the late stages of diseases (after their mainstream doctors had given up on them). Jim’s doctor had given him only 6 months to live; but after he started the alternative, natural treatment for his emphysema, his lungs became 70% clear in only six weeks. And this was revealed and stated by his doctor who had given up on him.
Again, alternative medicine treatments aren’t always effective. But they have demonstrated much more effectiveness than some of mainstream medicine’s treatments. After his doctor told him he had only six months to live, Jim had no hope; and hopelessness has been linked to early deaths. Without hope, it has been observed, the mind and body tend to weaken and slowly shut down, thus bringing on death sooner. Once Jim first heard about the treatment that later saved his life, he began to have hope. Hope wasn’t really necessary with the treatment that he used (as it has been used successfully on people who had little or no expectation of it). However, hope was enough to get him to try it and take action.
Alternative medicine has a broader perspective, approach and adaptability than does mainstream medicine. Thankfully, mainstream medicine in recent years is more accommodating of alternative medicine; they sometimes now refer to it as “complimentary medicine.” Many alternative therapies will not conflict with mainstream medicine treatments so they can often be used along with mainstream treatments.
6. Alternative Medicine Fundamentally Embraces The Now-Known Reality That Good Nutrition, Balancing And Cleansing The Body Is Fundamental To Health And Healing
For decades, mainstream medicine in general has tended to downplay and even sometimes mock the importance of nutrition, balancing and cleansing the body. Yet, properly nourishing, balancing and cleansing the body has demonstrated many times that this combination can greatly assist the body in healing itself. Now, after years of alternative assertions as to the importance of these, even many mainstream practitioners are now eating healthier, taking nutritional supplements, exercising, and balancing and cleansing their own bodies personally.
Mainstream medical students, at least in the past, receive relatively few hours of training in nutrition as compared with the many hours of their other medical training. This seems to reveal that mainstream medicine has not tended to value the importance of how critical properly nourishing and cleansing the body is to general health and healing. (A crazy thought: If society was much healthier in general from better nutrition and cleansing, maybe we would need less of the not-so-healthy drugs of mainstream medicine.) Of course their other medical training is important. However, in recent years, it is great news that even mainstream medical sources are now realizing the extreme importance of good nutrition as alternative practitioners have asserted for decades.
Now, more and more people are being educated by alternative medical knowledge. We as a society are realizing the common sense knowledge that cells need proper nutrition to be healthy, that the functions of the body need to be balanced, and that, as the processes of food are being converted into energy, toxins (the by-products that accumulate in the cells) are major contributors of disease and adverse conditions. As an automobile needs appropriate fuel, the systems need to be in tune (balanced) (i.e., clean spark plugs), and the exhaust needs to be effectively released — so too our bodies to be maintained. With nutrition, balancing and cleansing as important as they are now generally known to be to health and healing, it would be wise to be open to the professional knowledge of someone who is knowledgeable in these areas.
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