10 different between conventional medicine and alternative medicine?
September 7, 2010 by Herbals Medicines
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I need to know different in technology of medicine …
and their reason.
hope i have a correct answer…
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Convential medicine focuses on physical symptoms and pharmacologic treatment. Alternative medicine uses non pharmacological interventions like massage, accupuncture, hipnosis. They incorporate a connection between the physical and mental health. They treat the body through relaxation and stress releif.
I don’t know what you mean by 10 different!
10 different what? The simple difference is conventional medicine deals with symptoms it does not cure! It reliefs ailments.. that means they can come back! Also the conventional drugs get approval at a 40% success rate. While herbal meds don’t get approved until there is an 80% success rate
Why.. that is cause herbs treat the cause of the ailment. And when the cause is eliminated usually the problem don’t come back. Of course if the cause can’t be figured out then even the herbal methods will use the symptoms symptoms. Talk to a Herbalist directly! Each form of medicine has it’s place for some herbs system is better for some others it’s otherwise!
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This is a vast subject. Too much to cover in a short post. Here is a link to a free ebook that will answer some of your questions:
http://www.new-alternative-health.info/blog/natural-healing/free-alternative-medicine-ebook
Here’s a few. I have removed the word “conventional” and replaced “alternative medicine” with “quackery”.
1. medicine works, quackery doesn’t
2. medicine fixes physical problems for genuinely sick people, quackery uses placebos on people with trivial illnesses who would recover anyway
3. medicine requires highly qualified individuals, the dregs of society become quacks
4. medicine relies on science, quackery relies on pseudo science and fantasy
5. medicine is based on evidence, quackery is based on anecdote
6. medical staff have a deep understanding of, and training in, anatomy, biology, pharmacology and chemistry, quacks didn’t finish high school
7. medical staff are highly respected, quacks are ridiculed
8. medicine passes clinical trials, quackery continually fails to pass clinical trials and is therefore not allowed to claim efficacy for any condition
9. medical staff are allowed to examine patients, quacks are not
10.medical staff are allowed to prescribe prescription drugs, quacks are not
Hope this helped.
Jack the quack is back! Conventional Western medicine in recent years has seen an incredible movement of Physicians moveing to practice alternitive medicine. Why? you might ask ? Well they’re very frustrated with the AMA , and they truely want to help thier patients. They’re wise to the fact that conventional medicine only TREATS the disease and never gets to the root of the problem. You see healthy people, mean no revenue to the medical community. Oh yes the technology has improved only to the degree of diagnosis and certain surgical procedures that are very helpful in emergency situtations. But in the case of restoring health and vitality in ones self, alt-medicine is the way to go. Ask yourself, Why has cancer progressed when we have all these great technologies, and Godlike scientists? Remember those scientists claimed the world was flat at one point in time!
You want to know 10 differences between conventional medicine and alternative “medicine” and an explanation for each one? Here we go – but it’s going to be long:
Firstly, I would rather call alternative stuff “Alternative Health Methods” (AHM). They are not medicine. The only medicine is the one taught at medical school and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Serious alternative practitioners don’t wish to be associated with the word “medicine”. It is too negatively laden.
I will write CM for Conventional Medicine and AHM for the alternatives.
1) CM cannot do anything for you unless something goes wrong and the doctor has symptoms to work on, while AHM can do a lot for you before things go visibly wrong.
Doctors have to wait until something is “broken” – then they try to repair it. It’s the only way. If they have no symptoms or something obvious on results of blood, urine or other analyses, they can’t do anything. They are lost as to where to start and what to do. From there it’s trial and error. Very scientific!
AHM have ways of testing what is weakened and what needs attention BEFORE it gets broken. Sometimes long before. AHM can be used as much as a preventive method as a fixing method. But, like CM, it cannot fix damage which has gone too far. Most people who criticize AHM do so because they waited too long to come to an AHM practitioner who couldn’t help them. It’s not the method’s fault. It’s the client who came too late.
2) CM is invasive while AHM are never invasive.
CM has only two ways of fixing health problems: chemicals or surgery (+ radiation in case of cancer). This is pretty drastic and very invasive! It is never good to introduce foreign chemicals in our bodies. Surgery is extremely invasive. Radiation is downright destructive.
AHM are never invasive. They use gentle ways of awakening the bodies own healing powers. Some help eliminate toxins and rebuild healthy tissues. Some retrain the nervous system so the body remembers how it was to be healthy and works at recovery.
3) CM is fundamentally not interested in people – only in symptoms and diseases while AHM’s interest is to focus 100% on the person.
Many doctors spend the whole 10 minutes allotted to each patient looking at their computer screen and writing down stuff. They ask questions without even looking at the patient. This kind of doctor doesn’t own an ounce of respect for their patients.
You will never find an AHM practitioner who spends his time at his computer and doesn’t even look at you. AHM work with their hands (chiropractors, acupuncturists, kinesiologists, Reiki practitioners, reflexologists, aromatherapists etc.) or observe the client and talk directly to the client (iridologists, naturopaths, phytotherapists, homeopaths, hynotherapists, psychotherapists etc.). They cannot NOT be interested in their clients. They simply cannot work without giving the client their full attention.
4) CM knows a lot about symptoms and diseases, but nothing about people and their innate healing powers. AHM are focused on the person and the healing powers within.
Doctors learn pathology and the medication or surgery procedures which might help. They learn very little about people and learn nothing about the individuality of each person and their personal responses.
AHM practitioners focus on the person, on the individuality of the person, on the reason why this particular person has this particular disease (and why not his wife or neighbour?) and enhances the particular resources in that particular person to promote recovery. Of course, that takes time compared to 10 minutes in the doctor’s surgery, but if this is really what it takes, why doesn’t CM use it? Less money in it? You bet!
5) CM is ruled by the pharmaceutical industry while AHM is not ruled by anything.
From the moment they join medical school, students become slaves to the pharmaceutical industry. This is wealthiest and most powerful industry in the world. Apart from sending off a patient for surgery, an MD has only chemicals to offer. He knows nothing else.
AHM has so many ways of dealing with a health problem. Not only are there many different methods (homeopathy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, etc. I named a few in pt. 3), but each method has many ways of dealing with problems. This compounds the possibility of getting good results.
6) CM focuses on symptoms while AHM focus on the cause and on good health.
CM has to focus on symptoms. They can’t do anything without them. They focus on diseases as well, because it is the only thing they know.
The focus of AHM is restoring the patient to good health and for that you have to study healthy persons and ask yourself: “What went wrong and how can we get you back on track so you recover fully?” To do this, you have to keep your focus on how a healthy person functions and give back that possibility to your client.
7) CM sees only a diseased organ or body while AHM involve the whole person – not just the physical.
This is extremely important. I am not just a liver or a pair of lungs, or an infarction. I am much more than that, with a mind of my own, feelings, energy, intelligence, fears, my whole life previous to this day, my memories and my personal traumas, etc… If my practitioner ignores everything outside the physical, he is ignoring 90% of me. AHM consider the whole of you and treat the whole of you at the same time. They take care of all of you. It would be unthinkable to separate a small part of you and focus on that only.
CM admits defeat in front of diseases they call “incurable”. There is no such thing as an incurable disease.
Many different AHM have helped people recover completely of MS, ME, Myathenia gravis, Autoimmune hepatitis, Cancer etc. It is not attributed to AHM because in many countries we are not supposed to work with such patients.
Alternative practitioners often hear: “But after all treatment at the hospitals failed, my mother went to an alternative practitioner and he couldn’t help her. Therefore your methods don’t work”.
Really? There is such a thing as being too late. Why wait until CM admits defeat to come to us? Even AHM cannot revitalize a corpse. There are no incurable diseases, but there are incurable people who wait too long to get help.
9) CM focuses on generalities as if we were all alike while AHM focus on individuality.
CM is always looking for the one thing that will cure the highest percentage of patients, as if we were all alike, with the same genes, the same medical history, the same experience of life, the same lifestyle, the same diet, etc. Wrong! We are all different and need a different kind of help.
AHM takes all this into consideration. Especially kinesiology and Neuro-Training. They are tailor-made for each client. Beat that!
All this attention takes time? Of course it takes time. But the results are there.
Many AHM are so individualized that they cannot pass any scientific test which demands reproducibility in a certain percentage of cases. Why should we submit to this kind of stupid test? Psychologist don’t. They respect the need for individuality in treatment. So do we. It’s the only way to work.
Just consider it for yourself: do you want to be treated like a robot among millions of robots, or like an indivual where your own particular needs are highly respected?
10) CM doesn’t take the time it takes to help a patient. It’s 10 minutes per patient and out you go with a prescription in your pocket while AHM practitioners use on average one hour per client.
When MD’s protest that they would never have the time to see ALL their patients if they used so much time for each, I usually reply: “And what if it actually is what it takes to help them back to health? Isn’t good health the purpose of the exercice? And the more healthy patients you have, the more time you have for the sick ones, because there will be fewer of them”.
CM is not interested in healthy people. Remember who is behind it all and pulling the strings: the allmighty pharmaceutical industry who want to provide the highest possible dividend for their stockholders. It’s not about health. It’s about money.
And for all those who are going to say: “If AHM worked, it would be known” – well, consider this:
1) It is known, but not everybody knows
2) Among those who know, not everybody talks about it
3) Among those who do talk about it, not everyone is believed
4) That makes very few people who actually know how well it works and will talk about it, and you may not have met one.
5) And if you have met one, did you believe that person?
Therefore the criticism “if it worked, it would be known” doesn’t hold water.
Only personal experience counts, like for everything else.
Hope this helps you. I wish you all the best with your assignment!
Western medicine consists of harmful chemicals for your body, many side effects, and dependency. And are expensive. I believe that doctors and psychiatrists are encouraged by the multi billion dollar drug companies to prescribe as many medications to people as possible. That’s why almost everyone you know is prescribed to at least a couple medications for “depression,” “ADHD,” “anxiety,” “bipolar”…plus the treatments for people with Cancer and Aids don’t really help much, except for make the companies richer…there have been wonderful herbal cures for certain diseases but the FDA made them illegal because it would mean that they would lose millions of dollars. Western medicine is only good for emergency treatment such as severe blood loss, replacing limbs, heart/liver/kidney failure, etc. However, I recommened resorting to alternative medicine for general health care; it’s cheaper, all natural, little to no side effects, effective, and healthier!