Comments on: Alternative Health

By: debra

debra — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:39:03 +0000

It is important to remember that herbal remedies can have side effects too.

April – what did your father do for his digestive problem? I have something similar and have had no luck with anything I have tried yet.

By: Discount Fitness Equipment

Discount Fitness Equipment — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:10:21 +0000

Get a good work out at home with some basic equipment, you don’t need an expensive gym membership.

By: Natural Remedies & Cures

Natural Remedies & Cures — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:31:20 +0000

I always opt for a natural remedy if at all possible. Sometimes pills are unavoidable tho.

By: Mike McMahon

Mike McMahon — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:30:11 +0000

My aunt and a good friend of ours has MS. Both of them have approached their conditions very differently. My Aunt has followed the alternative approach and just like your mom she does get tired and usually needs to nap at times but she is still on her own two feet. In addition to a number of herbs and vitamins she credits drinking pure water and bathing with filtered water as playing a big part in her over all health.

Our friend that has MS has relied entirely on the advice of her doctors. She doesn’t have a very good diet and while she isn’t in a wheel chair yet it won’t be long. She has a lot of issue with poor circulation and weight gain. Now she is at the point the getting around with her walker is a real struggle so she doesn’t even get out of her house very much. She won’t have anything to do with alternative healing because she thinks it’s all a bunch of hocus pocus.

I only wish she would at least try what is working for my Aunt.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:36:30 +0000

I think we must use natural way to heal the disease

By: Natty

Natty — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:28:57 +0000

yeah, I too believe in natural cures. After delivery of my first baby i faced lots of health problems… arthritis followed by whole body inflammation and after some years muscular pains and cardiac pain… I regained my strength & got rid of all those problems by
1. 30minutes brisk walk in the morning on empty stomach
2. Eating fresh food only; no frozen & canned foods or refrigerated food… mostly vegetables & little of non-veg
3. taking multivitamins & iron & calcium tabs & fish oil tabs
4. Started with ayurveda natural medicines for rejuvenation
5. Trying to be stress free… Don’t allow negative thoughts to come in your mind. Moment u realize, your brain is thinking about some bad experiences or depressive thoughts, say NO..NO… & think about something else..something good & refreshing…

Life is really short & its really very beautiful… so Enjoy every second by having good thoughts & deeds in your life no matter how bad the world is…

Wish U all the best

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:51:57 +0000

Jack’s right that healthy living is the best medicine. Working with natural remedies as I do, I think that’s one reason natural remedies are better: they’re not offered as an alternative to good health habits, as is so often the case with drugs.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:30:47 +0000

The formal medical community is beginning to crack a little on the subject of Alternative Techniques for treating conditions and disease and these are excellent examples of why that is happening. Proof in the pudding.

By: jack

jack — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:49:59 +0000

I always believe in natural health. My family doesn’t always rely to see doctors but sometimes we had to. The best thing to cure a disease is early prevention. Exercise, fruits and vegetables, fresh air and clean envrironment.

By: kpb

kpb — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:25:51 +0000

I tend to agree with most of the posts here. Alternative medicine and Holistic therapies are becoming more popular daily. Normally when we visit our local doctor or medical practitioner they tend to ask what is wrong and then prescribe antibiotcs or whatever to treat the symptom and from my experience rarely consider what is causing this symptom.
I am often asked what is holistic … I think if we put a W in front of it and change the word to Wholistic then we think of the word “Whole” and that is exactly what holistic therapies are all about the Whole person “for if we need to find the cure we must look beyond the symptoms”.
There is no effect without a cause and similarly there is no illness without a cause.
When we visit an Holistic practitioner they should take a case study and they will or should look at anything and everything that can be that “cause”.
They will look at our diet and eating habits, what exercise we do, whether we drink or smoke, our work and family situations to ascertain if they are causing any stress (bearing in mind that a lot of illnesses are stress related). They will consider past illnesses, falls or bumps and anything at all that could relate to our present condition. In effect they are looking for the cause of our condition .. oh yes if we have a headache we can take an asprin or paracetamol and the headache may go … for a while. What we have done here is treat the symptom and the relief may be short lived as the cause may not have been corrected. The cause of the headache for instance may be due to spending too long if front of a computer or maybe our eyesight has deteriorated and we need spectacles.
We can treat the symptom which will continue to return until we have dealt with the cause of our problem.
There is a saying (I believe by Paracelus the great 16th century physician) which is very true and a good simile “Those who merely treat the effects of a disease(and not the cause)are like those who imagine they can drive away the winter by brushing the snow from the door”