Alternative Medicine? Good or not? Survey.?
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I don't think using an alternative medication is good. There have been some cases in which people have had panic attacks because they are not used to that medication.
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I've had 2 friends try alternative medicine - not for breast cancer - but I'd sure call an alternative doctor.  Both friends' cancer disappeared and they have been cancer-free for more than 12 years.  No side effects like chemo, either.\n\nDr. Nicholas Gonzales in NY,NY is the doc for one of my friends.  She goes for check ups just once a year, so you don't have to live there to be his patient.  If you look him up on the Internet, he doesn't look good.  BUt don't believe everything you read.\n\nBUT, what I know, is that my friend was given NO HOPE with regular medical treatments.  THey were going to take her lung and do aggressive chemo and they didn't expect her to live 4 more months even if they did that.  SO she went to Dr. Gonzales and she credits him with saving her life.\n\nI am not some sort of wierd health-nut, by the way.  I go to regular doctors.  I just know of these 2 friends who were healed by alternative medicine.\n\nGood luck!!
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Hi. I am a Naturopath. What do you want to know? Go here http://www.jentleearthhealing.com/medherb.html and type it in my little form and I will help you out. Great to see your interested, best of luck!\n\nCraig - Naturopath
1101687
I think it's great. I love a good massage. A friend of mine is a massage therapist and she specializes in massage for people who participate in sports. She has a lot of clients. Of course, she has to put up with smirking by people who have seen classified ads for the "other" kind of massage therapy, but she just ignores that. Massage therapy is a good profession with many benefits.
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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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I am an alternative medicinal therapist and i can tell that if you go to the sites 'alternative medicine' then type in veterinary you should come up with what you are looking, i do know that there is a pet section, I;ve seen it.\n\nGloria(BSYA)
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I definately think it should be legalised for medical use but it really can mess up your head if you use it all the time....it totally slows down you reactions, can make you paranoid and so on....i don't think once in a while hurts but if it is legalised in needs seriously regulating so people dont go too far.\n\nHope yr good now
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in additon to www.drweill.com you can also go to webmd. they show alternative/holistic optins.
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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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If a herbal medicine can pass the same trials regular medicines do, they will be accepted by the scientific community in the same way regular medicines are.\n\nThe "alternative health" community would have a lot to gain if their products went through trials, and were proven effective. In many cases, they are openly hostile to trials because they know their products do not work, and they are skirting around this with weasel words on their packaging like "thought to do X", or "has been used traditionally to do Y".\n\nScientists are not opposed to herbal medicine working, they are opposed to products which are not proven in trials to be effective being promoted as such, possibly directing people away from a treatment which is known to work.\n\nHerbalists often claim their products are safer. This is untrue, there have been dangerous products found on sale in herbal medicine shops, and natural doesn't mean safe.
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Is this a question?  It sounds more like a statement and you are correct.  Many herbalists and traditional healers say they use "science", but it really isn't.  \n\nHerbology and homeopaths have their own belief structure... but it is anything but science.  Science has shown that many of their unfounded beliefs are patently ridiculous.\n\nFor the other posters:  Here's why herbalism is wrong.\n1.  You are not just getting one active ingregient.  Herbs have hundreds of ingredients.  How do you know that some of them might not be harmful?\n2.  You might not be getting just that herb.  When a company buys it's herbs from farmers, there is no way to test to make sure that weeds and other foreign vegetation weren't accidently (or purposely) included.\n3.  What was the original theory for why certain herbs worked?  Most herbs have not been scientifically tested.  Instead, centuries ago, many herbs were chosen as "beneficial" because of how they appeared.  Asparagus is a long straight stalk... therefore, it was thought to be good against impotence.  Yeah, that's scientific.  \n4.  You cannot measure out the active ingredient.  Prescription drugs are tightly controlled for the amount of active ingredient each pill contains.  You can't do that with herbs.  Any stoner can tell you that one plant of marijuana might have more THC than another.  You cannot tell how much of an active ingredient it would have.  \n5.  Many herbs have been shown to NOT be beneficial.  Yes, there are some studies that show herbs like St. John's Wort to be beneficial.  How many studies actually show other herbs to be beneficial?  Very, very few.\n6.  Side effects and drug interactions have not been identified.  Prescription drugs are carefully tested to find out their side effects and their drug interactions.  Yet, sometimes we here in the news that a drug might have problems that weren't known.  This being the case, why would a herb be any better?  Because they'd be used for centuries?  Just because something has been done for a long time doesn't mean that it's the smart thing to do.\n7.  Information about herbs is frequently wrong.  Echineacea was shown to increase white blood cells.  Herbalists immediately jumped on a "echineacea is good for the immune system" platform.  However, the WBCs were malformed.  Later testing revealed that long term use actually lowered a person's WBC's count below normal.  Further testing revealed that the malformed WBCs initially formed did not help fight off viruses or bacteria.  What does this mean?  It meant that echineacea is actually BAD for you!  Yet, herbalists continue to tout it's supposed beneficial effects!
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None so Far ! \nHomeopathy Delivers you from pain and suffering without adding to it ! \nThat is the specialized field of conventional medicine complications and side effects !\nThanks God for Homeopathy,it is safe from them !\nTake Care and God Bless !
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Some drugs claim to slow the progess of the disease but this has rarely been the case in my experiences with this disease. The best is to look for a local support group. Herbally, things like Ginkgo Biloba are found to improve blood flow to the brain. I  believe in alternative therapies as there is little else that can help. If caught early enough, the results can be very pleasing. I am a homoeopath but my mother refused treatment when she was lucid enough to decide. It's not ethical to give it with refusal. Funnily enough now, she has agreed to go to a colleague of mine so I'm hoping for some improvements but I feel it's too late realistically now.
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Here is an article that may help, in addition to all the other answers you've received:\nhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/alternative-medicine/PN00001\n\nGood luck!
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I don't think herbal solutions are at all effective.\nLook here:
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I am not a herbalist; however, I found a Web site which I refer to often for natural alternatives to drugs--www.reikinurse. com/Natural Antibiotics.\n I hope you too will find there many topics of inerest and a pleasure of exploring this beautiful site.  Good luck!
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I myself have not taken it, but a few others that I know that are close to me are taking it currently.  In their opinion, it is working, although it takes a while to kick in for full effectiveness.  Just keep taking it if you've been prescribed it.