Why Is Alternative Medicine So Popular?

The concept of alternative medicine is very much perplexing. The term, alternative medicine actually implies that Traditional Western Medicine or Conventional Medicine is the preferred choice for medical care, but there are alternatives to consider. In fact, the idea of combining Conventional and Alternative Medicine (CAM) adds to the confusion.

Conventional and Alternative Medicine is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, products, and practices that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine. Conventional and Alternative Medicine actually combines both the conventional and holistic medicine with the hope that it creates hybrid results. Conventional medicine is a type of medicine as practiced by medical professionals or doctor of osteopathy and by their allied health professionals, such as psychologists, physical therapists, and registered nurses.

Metaphysical or Holistic health care focuses on all aspects of human existence, their mind, body and spirit. All physical illness is created by emotional distress or disease, which is actually a cry for help. These negative mental molds, if left untreated eventually result in physical dysfunctions. For instance, cancer can be created from deep physical or even mental injury or hurt; long standing resentment; a deep secret or grief eating away at the self-carrying hatreds and/or a belief of "What is the use." The site of the cancer also has implication. Such as vaginal cancer is generally the result of physical and sexual abuse. The sufferer perceives themselves as bad, not well enough, because surely if they were a good child and of course their parent would not physically or sexually harm him/her. Once the downbeat thinking pattern from this traumatic experience is identified; the emotional wounds healed and replaced with a new habitual positive pattern, the physical dysfunction is no longer needed and therefore the body comes back to a state of balance and harmony.

Conventional or alternative medicine or Western Medicine perceives the human body as a battleground on which wars are waged against invaders like viruses, bacterial infections and tumors. Beginning with the ancient Victorian era, Western society has become addicted to rapid fixes and results with no effort. Western Medicine has in some examples provided this result. When Western Medicine does really not produce a quick fix result the response was like, it could not be helped-the surgery was a success, the patient died. It is interesting to note that a dismal success rate-approximately 250,000 people die each year due to misdiagnosis and/or the medical health care treatment does little or nothing to improve the person's health. In other words these patients didn't die due to an illness they died due to the wrong treatment.

The theory and doctrines of Western Medicine fail to recognize that diseases are not separate from the person. In fact every ailment can be more precisely called an expression of the patient's lifestyle, beliefs, and energies. In fact, actual well-being comes from the understanding of the Self, the family, the local community in which people live, and the global community of which they are a part and of course the Mind, Body, Spirit approach addresses all three, therefore opening the door to true balance and healing with alternative medicine.

• Matt Thompson
• 16/01/2009, 4:59 AM
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