what are the main issues surrounding alternative medicine?
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My theory is that what we call modern medicine ( pharmaceuticals ) are the REAL "Alternative Medicine" ... Herbs, accupuncture, vitamins, minerals and healthy diet are ORIGINAL medicine .... You might check into the NNFA about the main contraversies regarding what most people call alternative medicine
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Under no circumstances should you be taking 'alternative' medicines alongside convenventional medicines. Your doctor MUST know if you are.\nBe very careful about using 'alternative' potions - so much of it is pure quackery (see second link) including that nonsense with magnets (also in the second link)
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There are many alternative cures, the best way to find out about what is out there is to keep searching. I found a great web site just follow the link there is loads of info.
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The problem with ayurvedic medicine is it is very unstable. The results are erratic and drug treatment is prolonged. You should be careful as Stanford uni had released a study noting the high quantities of heavy metals in ayurvedic medicines. Although Ayurveda is good with allergic conditions as is homeopathy. honestly it depends on the drugs u are taking and reason for taking them. If you give me some more info maybe i can help.
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Why are you posting this under alternative medicine?  These aren't alternatives, they're just regular medicine.
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it would be considered as alternate medicine and subsequently western standard of medical research may not have been completed on this plant, sounds interesting though, good luck
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Here are a few good sites about Alternative Medicine :-\n\nhttp://www.bachcentre.com/\nhttp://www.alternative-measures.com\nhttp://www.hpathy.com/homeopathy/\nhttp://www.abchomeopathy.com/\nhttp://www.sandmountainherbs.com/index.html\nhttp://homeopathy-homeopathics-remedies.naturalhealthdoc.net/Homeopathic-Remedy-Information/Tissue-Building.htm\nhttp://www.homeopathic.com/\nhttp://www.homeopathic.org/index.html\n\nI have selected the best ones I know of if you need any more email me. \nTake Care and God Bless you !
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conventional medicine aka western or scientific medicine.  \n\nhave a look at this site to give you some info on western mediine vs eastern medicine.\n\nhttp://gancao.net/ht/comparison.shtml\n\nin a nutshell...western medicine or conventional is based on scientific conclusions from an experiment.  however, eastern medicine believes that an individual is totally different from one another.  apart from symptoms, before they start to cure the person, they need to have the knowledge of the individual's constitution (dosha - in sanskrit).  for example, paracetamol doesn't have the effect it originally intends to have on everyone.  Based on MY experience, paracetamol doesn't work on me... and other medications as well..only until i've learned about alternative medicine or ayurveda, i've realised that  there are still a lot to learn to properly, efficiently cure an individual.  I've not taken any medications for nearly a year now and I'm absolutely fine!  Sometimes, alternative medicine gives ourselves to get in touch with our body to tell us if there is something wrong.  if we keep depending on doctors, we detach from our body and sometimes it becomes the cause of our own sickness.  havea search on alternative medicine or ayurveda... perhaps you could better understand the difference.
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There's nothing wrong with implementing parts from both.  But please do follow the advice of your doctor regarding herbal supplements and such.  Some of them are dangerous when combined with certain medicines.  And I must be honest, if you have serious health problems, "mainstream" medicine will do more to add quality and quantity to your life.  Just make sure you have a good doctor.  It makes all the difference.
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I agree with you to a large degree. Personally I believe the tradition treatments, chemo and/or radiation..cause more problems are are ineffective. In alot of cases the patient dies as a result of complications of the treatment, not from the actual disease. Yes, diet...I think an organic diet makes a huge difference, putting more chemicals into a body that is struggling doesnt make a lot of sense. Alot of the meds, even pain meds like morphine, tend to produce angiogenesis in cancer cells and spread the tumors. Im a big believer in the budwig diet and I'm a big believer in meditation and visualisation. I do believe there are alot of other things you can also do to help. For example, biophosponate to stop the spread to bones...blocking the FE+ receptors..cancer cells need iron to divide and multiply, blocking the FE+ receptors deprives them of iron and they cant continue to divide and muliply..there is a chemical in anti-malarial meds that does this. I also strongly believe in Qigong - powerful chinese med to bolster the immune system. Oxidisation treatment, hyperbaric chamber...Dendric cell therapy .. IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy), Ultra Violet treatment...there is so much.  Good on you for looking further than the traditional!
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Research alternative cures. Over 100 are available, but your doctor isn't allowed to tell you about them.\n\nI have always believed that the mainstream medical industry is not interested in finding a cure for cancer because it makes too much profit with its present barbarous methods.\nEventually, I came across a detailed report which agreed with my findings, and I have included it in my web page at\n\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancer.html\n\nBy reading this report, you will also convince yourself that it is best to ignore the mainstream cancer industry, and seek alternative cures. Also you should bear in mind that the medical industry will do anything to protect its profitable position, including disparaging alternative healers or even creating bogus court cases.\n\nI believe that cancer is a whole body thing, which in 80 percent of cases manifests itself by producing symptoms in the weaker parts of the body, and therefore appearing localised. It is this treatment of symptoms instead of cause which creates the profitable, yet non-successful approach of mainstream medicine.\n\nSome cures are listed on the web page too.\n\nIt is therefore obvious that a holistic approach is required, based on cleansing, diet, exercise and debugging.\n\nCLEANSING\nThe best way of cleansing is to fast.\n\nhttp://www.phifoundation.org/menses.html\nhttp://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=1996\n\nbut if a patient is too weak for that, or does not fancy the idea, then alternative cleanses are available.\n\n\nColon Cleanse\nhttp://www.soundfeelings.com/free/colon_cleansing.htm#recipe\nBowel cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/schulze/herbal_colon_cleanse_1_2.asp\nkidney cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/kidney/default.asp\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_12678_kidney-cleansing-fast.html\nhttp://www.falconblanco.com/health/cleansing/kidney.html\nhttp://www.healingdaily.com/colon-kidney-detoxification.htm\nhttp://www.healthfree.com/cleansing_programs_kidney.html\nLiver cleanse\nhttp://www.drclark.net/en/drclark_protocol/illnesses/liver_cleanse.php\nGallbladder cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/liver/default.asp\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/liver/huldas_recipe.asp\nPancreas cleanse\nhttp://curezone.com/dis/1.asp?C0=261\n\nDIET,\nThe best diet is vegetarian, avoiding all processed, frozen or micro-waved foods and drinks, and based on fresh fruit, fresh vegetables - preferably organic, nuts and seeds. Drinks should be clean water or freshly squeezed orange juice.\n\nMany researchers promote the benefits of vitamin B17 as a healer. this can be found in the following foods:\nApple seeds, alfalfa sprouts, apricot kernels, bamboo shoots, barley, beet tops, bitter almond, blackberries, boysenberries, brewer’s yeast, brown rice, buckwheat, cashews, cherry kernels, cranberries, currants, fava beans, flax seeds, garbanzo beans, gooseberries, huckleberries, lentils, lima beans, linseed meat, loganberries, macadamia nuts, millet, millet seed, peach kernels, pecans, plum kernels, quince, raspberries, sorghum cane syrup, spinach, sprouts (alfalfa, lentil, mung bean, buckwheat, garbanzo), strawberries, walnuts, watercress, yams.\n\nA commercial preparation of B17 is available called Laetrile.\n\nEXERCISE\nExercise should be sufficient to create a sweat, but not sufficient to make you gasp for breath or feel over-tired. About one hours exercise every day is best.\n\nDEBUGGING\nThere are various theories about how bugs create cancer.\n\nHulda Clark suggests that parasites are the cause, and that they can be disposed of by using a zapper.\n\nZappers are available from\n\nSuper Zapper DeLuxe\nhttp://www.drclark.net      Clark Zapper with amazing features get a free CD ROM\n\nhttp://www.paradevices.com/zapper_works.html\n\nTerminator Crystal Orgone Zapper Blood Purification Parasite Solution\nElectrical stimulation devices for blood purification, parasites, relaxation, and addictions.\nhttp://www.elixa.com/estim/zap.htm\n\nHigh frequency parasite zappe
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Over 100 alternative cures are available.\n\nThe same cures apply to both, as thet are whole body treatments.\n\nI have always believed that the mainstream medical industry is not interested in finding a cure for cancer because it makes too much profit with its present barbarous methods.\nEventually, I came across a detailed report which agreed with my findings, and I have included it in my web page at\n\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancer.html\n\nBy reading this report, you will also convince yourself that it is best to ignore the mainstream cancer industry, and seek alternative cures. Also you should bear in mind that the medical industry will do anything to protect its profitable position, including disparaging alternative healers or even creating bogus court cases.\n\nI believe that cancer is a whole body thing, which in 80 percent of cases manifests itself by producing symptoms in the weaker parts of the body, and therefore appearing localised. It is this treatment of symptoms instead of cause which creates the profitable, yet non-successful approach of mainstream medicine.\n\nSome cures are listed on the web page too.\n\nIt is therefore obvious that a holistic approach is required, based on cleansing, diet, exercise and debugging.\n\nCLEANSING\nThe best way of cleansing is to fast.\n\nhttp://www.phifoundation.org/menses.html\nhttp://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=1996\n\nbut if a patient is too weak for that, or does not fancy the idea, then alternative cleanses are available.\n\n\nColon Cleanse\nhttp://www.soundfeelings.com/free/colon_cleansing.htm#recipe\nBowel cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/schulze/herbal_colon_cleanse_1_2.asp\nkidney cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/kidney/default.asp\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_12678_kidney-cleansing-fast.html\nhttp://www.falconblanco.com/health/cleansing/kidney.html\nhttp://www.healingdaily.com/colon-kidney-detoxification.htm\nhttp://www.healthfree.com/cleansing_programs_kidney.html\nLiver cleanse\nhttp://www.drclark.net/en/drclark_protocol/illnesses/liver_cleanse.php\nGallbladder cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/liver/default.asp\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/liver/huldas_recipe.asp\nPancreas cleanse\nhttp://curezone.com/dis/1.asp?C0=261\n\nDIET,\nThe best diet is vegetarian, avoiding all processed, frozen or micro-waved foods and drinks, and based on fresh fruit, fresh vegetables - preferably organic, nuts and seeds. Drinks should be clean water or freshly squeezed orange juice.\n\nMany researchers promote the benefits of vitamin B17 as a healer. this can be found in the following foods:\nApple seeds, alfalfa sprouts, apricot kernels, bamboo shoots, barley, beet tops, bitter almond, blackberries, boysenberries, brewer’s yeast, brown rice, buckwheat, cashews, cherry kernels, cranberries, currants, fava beans, flax seeds, garbanzo beans, gooseberries, huckleberries, lentils, lima beans, linseed meat, loganberries, macadamia nuts, millet, millet seed, peach kernels, pecans, plum kernels, quince, raspberries, sorghum cane syrup, spinach, sprouts (alfalfa, lentil, mung bean, buckwheat, garbanzo), strawberries, walnuts, watercress, yams.\n\nA commercial preparation of B17 is available called Laetrile.\n\nEXERCISE\nExercise should be sufficient to create a sweat, but not sufficient to make you gasp for breath or feel over-tired. About one hours exercise every day is best.\n\nDEBUGGING\nThere are various theories about how bugs create cancer.\n\nHulda Clark suggests that parasites are the cause, and that they can be disposed of by using a zapper.\n\nZappers are available from\n\nSuper Zapper DeLuxe\nhttp://www.drclark.net      Clark Zapper with amazing features get a free CD ROM\n\nhttp://www.paradevices.com/zapper_works.html\n\nTerminator Crystal Orgone Zapper Blood Purification Parasite Solution\nElectrical stimulation devices for blood purification, parasites, relaxation, and addictions.\nhttp://www.elixa.com/estim/zap.htm\n\nHigh frequency parasite zappe
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This is an interesting question. You cannot "treat" HIV with natural products but you can use alternative medicine to complement traditional treatment. I've done a lot of work with HIV patients and this approach seemed to provide the best outcome. In my practice, we use a lot of accupuncture, nutritional intervention, bio-feedback and counseling in addition to modern medicine. Our patients do very well. As for when to start the drugs, that's still a debate. You need to sit down with your health care provider to discuss this (prefably with an HIV specialist). Let me know if you have any more questions...Priscilla
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I think both have value, depending on the condition you want to treat, its severity, etc.  Look for products and therapies that are appropriate and safe.\n\nI think a good strategy is to go to your doctor and get a diagnosis.  If you have a chronic condition (osteoarthritis, chronic sinusitus, etc), then certainly look at herbal medicines.  If you have an acute condition, then go with what will get you out of the crisis.  Once stable, you can then begin investigating alternatives.\n\nOriental herbs are usually used in complex formulae and address the root of the problem.  The practitioner of Oriental medicine will look at your symptoms as the expression of an imbalance in your body.  They will want to address the imbalance.  Symptom suppression is very different from real healing, and too often pharmaceuticals only address the symptoms.  That is why you have to keep taking them, because as soon as you stop, the symptoms come back.\n\nOne consideration you will have to make is whether or not you have the commitment to take Oriental medicines.  The formula prescribed for you may require you to cook it up, like a tea or soup.  If you take herbal capsules, you may have to take a number of them a few times a day.  I don't think this is a bad thing, but some people do not want to be bothered with the inconvenience.  Just remember, good health has to be cultivated, and over the long run, you are better off for the effort you invest in yourself.\n\nAlso, many people find that the two medicines work well together.  If you choose this route, be sure to keep all your health pratitioners aware of all the things you are taking.  Herb-drug interaction are very possible, but easily avoided if you keep everyone up to date.\n\nI like herbal medicines because they are usually less taxing on the body, they usually have no side effects (although any medicine can have side effects), they are less costly, and they have a long history of usefullness.\n\nOne important reminder: Herbals are not regulated in America like pharmaceuticals, and some overseas companies are not good at all (some have been tested to have harmful ingredients, or only trace amounts of what it is supposed to have).  Therefore, you need to make sure you buy your supplies from a reputable company or practitioner.  GMP (Good Manufacturing Principles) is a status that some overseas companies use to indicate that there is government regulation on the factory and its products.  Some countries, like Australia, regulate and test herbal products.
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NO CONTEST - I'll take a homeopathic remedy over convential medicine ANY day as long as it works - but I will use conventional medicine if I have no other choice - too many doctors today fill our bodies with so much GARBAGE that it makes us sicker than we were when we first saw them!!\n\nFOR EXAMPLE - they now are looking at the results of infant immunization shots containing THIMERESOL (which contains Mercury!!) and how these shots are causing all sorts of neurological disorders including autism, mental retardation, global learning delays, and many others!
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helpful- get rid of diseases such as parkinsons or maybe even genetic cancer\n\nharmful- dont know the side effect...and people may use it for the wrong reasons...
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Yes.\nIn fact its vest to refuse treatment from the mainstream meducal profession, and seek an alternative treatment. There are many cures available.\n\nRead this report.\n\n\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancer.html