Integrative medicine and your future

Integrative medicine and your future

The NBC National News cited the Washington Post in March 2000 about the concerns of the FDA regarding the mixing of nutritional supplements and conventional medication. There were concerns that millions of people take dietary supplements (as herbs, homeopathica, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and some diet products) and reactions when they mix these things with common and prescribed medication.

I have examined this phenomenon for over 20 years and know exactly that these reactions are quite common in conventional drugs. The AMA calls on the FDA to reverse its decision on dietary supplements from 1997.

is that really the best approach?

Many universities across the country have closed their ethno botanics and botany laboratories and, many with the talent in this area, refused to help and determine which plants have side effects when looking for new remedies when they are combined with other chemicals

A good example is the treatment of gout.

medication that is prescribed by conventional Medicine are usually allopurinal or cyloprim and colchicin (which is a homeopathic remedy from the onion of the autumn timeless), which reduces the reaction that causes uric acid in the blood. Allopurinal and colchicin can be reinforced by a special diet and the elimination of some dietary supplements that can cause an increase in certain enzymes in the diet. Both drugs can also cause serious side effects and toxicity if they are taken in high doses and/or over a longer period of time.

The lack of certain nutrients can trigger a gout attack, people who take antibiotics can increase the risk of a seizure, and the diet of a person can certainly not only influence the severity of a attack, but also the frequency of seizures.

There are also other reactions that have to be taken into account, and that is that allopurinal and colchicin have a negative effect on the liver after 6 months of use, which makes it more difficult for these medication to be effective. If you also add some nutritional supplements to the system, even a normal multivitamin, if the liver already has to struggle with the requirements of the system, this can lead to a adverse reaction to the liver, sometimes because the liver has to be more difficult to absorb the micronutrients contained in the multivitamin.

The balance between conventional medicine and alternative medicine is delicate. At the moment, both schools of thought are refusing to work together, and the general public is the victim.

For some who suffered from allergies, this was prescribed as Seldane, this was a very worrying problem. When taking Seldane, the patient was not told that taking the medication together with certain micronutrients could be fatal, which in some cases was the case in the United States.

In our small town we had a family doctor who took care of the needs of the community. He was a wonderful man who always made his time, energy and knowledge available. A week after he was diagnosed with gastric carcinoma, he called me for advice. I asked him why he would call me and ask for help. He told me that he had observed how the patients in whom he had diagnosed the same illness died a slow, painful and miserable death, even while taking conventional medication. He said he knew that traditional medication and protocols did not work, he had diagnosed cancer, informed the patients, see them slowly and he wanted something else. I treated him for 9 months; Cancer did not progress during this time, it did not go away either, but it has not progressed. I asked him to carry out both treatments together, traditionally and integrative, but he declined. He had a friend who was oncologist, and this friend finally convinced him to carry out some clinical studies at some universities. To do this, the family doctor had to take off all the other protocols he had taken. They waited a few weeks for the nutrients to leave his body and then started it with a protocol called PP6 and Thalidomide. A few days after the first treatment, he said to his closest friend: "I killed myself". He was completely unable to work within a few weeks. He died about 5 months later under great pain and crucal death.

Not always conventional medicine is to blame ... A cancer patient in the N stage was treated by both a school doctor and a naturopath. Because the patient had been put on prednison, he had received an edema. The alternative practitioner asked the patient to stop the medication immediately and then left the city on a business trip. A few days later I got a call, the patient breathed heavily and he had liquid in the lungs. The masseur, the called, explained what had happened. I told her that she should call the man's family doctor immediately, the reduction in Prednison should not be stopped immediately without the patient suffering repercussions. The patient paid the ultimate price for the bridge between alternative and conventional medicine. There is so much that can be integrated into both thinking and treatment schools. These stories are the reason why the public turns to other treatment methods, most use a combination that, as the previous history shows, can be harmful to health, unless the health service provider has knowledge in both areas and an understanding of the chemical reactions that can occur.

It is always best to be responsible for your own health and treatment. No medical specialist personnel should be given total and complete control over the life of another man. The need for knowledge is a necessity in the decision to integrate various treatment methods for the health service provider involved, it can mean the difference between the life and death of a patient.