Alternative medicine as an effective alternative to conventional medicine

Alternative medicine as an effective alternative to conventional medicine

Over the course of the 21st century, we have made many advances in medicine due to new discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics. Conventional medicine, our widely accepted system of medical knowledge, is practiced almost exclusively in the United States and abroad. With this system, doctors and other healthcare professionals treat illnesses with medication, radiation or surgery. Conventional medicine is also known as allopathic, mainstream, modern or western medicine.

As a technologically advanced society, we have become proud of our scientific achievements, but modern medicine has not yet solved our health problems. There are various diseases such as cancer, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis and a variety of serious and chronic diseases that have been waiting for a cure for many, many years. Those who suffer from terminal illnesses question the true progress of modern medicine and, given modern innovations in science, wonder whether it has made that much progress at all. We have everyday experience of the wonders of medicine in nuclear and emergency medicine, immunology, surgery and medical testing, and certainly these systems are extremely important, but actual disease prevention and treatment for many chronic diseases still eludes the modern medical establishment.

There has been a driving force behind alternative medicine for centuries, and the motivation has been to heal others. Although alternative practitioners and their patients report effective results, some people suggest that such medicines are fraudulent and practiced by inadequate or under/uneducated people. This could certainly be true in some cases, but it also applies to conventional doctors who have had their license revoked due to negligence or incompetence.

If doctors weren't sexists, there wouldn't be a need to offer seminars on how to treat a woman's pelvic exam sensitively in a "non-sexist" way. This type of mentality is one of the many reasons why women and men in particular turn away from their doctors and seek the help of alternative practitioners. Michael P. Annavi, Ph.D., states in his essay on allopathic authority entitled Scraps from the Table of Allopathic Power: "The allopathic medical industry has created a process of invalidation that promotes the ideology that knowledge is real only when it is real." is established in this tautological framework of European thought.

The difficulty of establishing the practices and rights of non-traditional health professionals has been thwarted over the last two centuries by those committed to the practice of scientifically validated medicine, by the traditional medical societies and, of course, by the doctors themselves. This is nothing more than systematic prejudice and racism, especially in relation to the Chinese and e-Indian doctors of acupuncture and Ayurvedic medicine.

Larry Altshuler, MD, explains in his book Balanced Healing that many alternative healing methods are simply more effective than traditional treatments for certain conditions, and that many treatments have fewer side effects and potential dangers. In his book, Dr. Altshuler natural treatments that he has used effectively on patients for many years. As a proponent of preventative and natural medicine, Dr. Altshuler, for example, that there is a strong connection between diabetes and obesity. As a truly alternative medical treatment, he first mentions that patients should completely avoid alcohol, which has a very high sugar content. Secondly, he says to eat a balanced diet, low in refined sugar, fat and animal products and high in plant fiber. Third, he recommends the vitamins, nutrients and herbs necessary to supplement. Lastly, he recommends acupuncture treatments.

In the documentary The True Story of the Bridge over the River Kwai, Otto C. Schwarth, an American prisoner of war forced to work on the railway between Burma and Thailand during World War II, described how hundreds of thousands of British and American prisoners of war who fell ill and died from various illnesses were treated by a handful of doctors. In his interview, Mr. Schwarth, then in his 80s, recalled: "Americans were forever grateful to the Dutch doctor Henry Hecking. Dr. Hecking was born and raised in Indonesia by his grandmother, who was an herbalist. He was our savior. Actually, because he knew all the local herbs. Our group ended up having the lowest mortality rate on the line.

Michael Wayne, Ph.D., author of Quantum Integral Medicine, explains in his interview with Acupuncture Today: This biomedicine (conventional medicine) is based on a model of linear determination and reductionism - approaches that see the world in very black and white terms. This approach has gotten us into big trouble, not only with its approach to the human body, but also with its approach to solving world problems. It is very cause and effect oriented and always looks for the ultimate cause that caused the dilemma (para. 3). Modern medicine has denied the bigger picture of health and healing brought about by corporate influence and profiteering. We are currently seeing the consequences of such corruption and greedy war in the Middle East to monopolize oil reserves, global warming along with the melting of the polar ice caps and global economic collapse.

It has also become an amusement for some doctors to criticize natural medicine and its practitioners. In an interview with an orthopedic surgeon in Fresno, CA (who preferred to keep his name anonymous), it emerged that chiropractors are referred to as "pseudo-doctors" in the conservative medical world. At the beginning of the 20th century, the medical establishment fought against the profession of chiropractors, saying that these types of health practitioners should not be licensed for reasons of public welfare and protection. We find that this was actually due to economic self-interest rather than the common good, or as chiropractors say, “the ermine gloves of altruism often hide the brass knuckles of greed” (Whorton 138). In plain language, the medical profession does not want to share its economic advantages with other medicine men. Hippocrates was also considered a heretic or "quack" of his time, as the medical thinking of his time was that illness and recovery were caused or influenced by gods and demons. Hippocrates (born 460 BC) is considered the father of Western allopathic medicine. He is credited with greatly advancing the systematic study of clinical medicine, synthesizing the medical knowledge of earlier schools, and prescribing practices for physicians.

20th century medicine made incredible advances in discovery, including nuclear technology for diagnosis and treatment. Although conventional medicine has made great scientific advances, many people still suffer from chronic debilitating illnesses and incurable illnesses. Allopathic medicine has a century of research and discovery behind it, but does not seem to offer valuable and affordable solutions as the 21st century progresses. The cost of medical treatment is staggeringly high, particularly for diagnostic tests and hospital visits. Doctors are not only concerned with their own economic advancement, but also keep in check those who do not consider themselves worthy of the title of doctor or physician. In ancient China, if a person became ill, the doctor was not paid for their services. They were only compensated by providing advice on diet, diet and exercise for the guests' health. They prescribed herbal medicines, not only for illnesses but also for health care. So it was the healthy people who supported the Chinese practitioner, not the sick ones. Unfortunately, in our modern society, it is the sick who provide the practitioner with a healthy income.

A new model of understanding in medicine needs to be incorporated into the existing allopathic model. Because of the growing popularity and effectiveness of alternative medicine, practitioners can finally get their deserved place in the medical society. The incorporation of alternative medical practices into the existing model of conventional Western medicine, including the training of new physicians, is now referred to as complementary medicine. To solve our health problems, this modern paradigm for treatment in medicine must be promoted. This can only truly occur when bias, self-interest, greed and discrimination are rejected and diverse medical knowledge is promoted and shared, not only among university-trained scientists and doctors, but also among alternative practitioners, philosophers, metaphysicians and other intelligentsia of society as well. By integrating alternative medicine into conventional medicine, we hope to create a model that focuses on health and healing rather than disease and economic benefit. As more states license NDs (nurture practitioners), seeing them should be as natural as seeing your allopathic doctor. This could become the new ideal for medicine and health in the 21st century and beyond. We also look forward to the day when labels like quack or pseudo-doctor disappear along with other biased subjective judgments.

Until a century ago, the common person thought it was impossible to fly, but after discovering the natural laws of aerodynamics, we can routinely fly into space. In his film Galileo, Bertolt Brecht shows the life of Galileo Galilei historically. In the 17th century, Galileo, threatened with persecution and death, proved through the study of cosmology and on the basis of mathematics that the sun was the center of the sky and not the earth. In the same way, using the natural ideals and foundations of medical knowledge, we will begin to make new and future discoveries regarding health and healing.