Naturopathy

As taboo as some alternative therapies can be, many patients began them because of a recommendation. Using the word of mouth is a popular way people learn about therapies. Friends and families play a big role during a dying person’s health by helping make decisions, being a caretaker, and suggesting new ways to improve the patients overall well-being. This may mean helping them look into therapies that have seemed to work for them in the past. Another popular reason for starting a new therapy is…

company that operates via a multi-level marketing structure to sell their products. Purium products are related to health and diet that helps the body to be sound and healthy to perform its expected functions. Purium diet adheres to the principle of naturopathy to help its users stay healthy, eat healthily, and also burn excess fat to lose weight. The purium diet works on the basic principle that the body is self-healing if provided with the right environment to flourish. Purium diet comprises…

Use of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine during Pregnancy The use of complementary medicine is on the rise across the nation; even pregnant women are using alternative means of treating their ailments while growing their young. Different cultures have their own means of self-medicating during times of sickness and pregnancy as they consider other forms of alternative remedies as a way to treat with natural medicine. A plethora of recent research is currently in progress, expanding and…

forth by health care practitioners. I’ve seen many doctors and psychologist for a diagnosis, and proper treatment. Because of my family’s distaste for medication, I was in classic therapy, group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga, seen a naturopathy, and every sport imaginable. Unfortunately, none of these helped, but I did get to see a lot of health care practitioners, and their take on mental illness. With one…

is still not perfect, and as long as it remains “imperfect” there will always be a place for Religion. We even see more people in the Western-World turning from conventional-medicine to alternative more faith-based healing. Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, and Chinese Medicine have not only survived centuries but are becoming popular alternative treatments("WHO | Traditional medicine"). This may be an indication that many feel that science has advanced too quickly, and people are returning to…

The basic model of task shifting in the healthcare sector is shown in figure 2. The healthcare professionals of higher cadre, who are less in number in an organization and expected to donate some of their patient care responsibilities to the available parallel professionals of the same cadre or lower cadre and hence are called Task shift donors. The professionals in the same field but of lower cadre or of belonging to the related area in the same field are called Task shift acceptors. To make…

This report explains, in plain English, the research article entitled “Effect of an integrated approach of yoga therapy on quality of life in osteoarthritis of the knee joint: A randomized control study”, which may be accessed for free, full text, at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193655/. I chose this topic because I have a family friend who has osteoarthritis. She is in her 50’s and has a strong desire to stay active and healthy since she has just retired. Her doctor told her…

There she was standing in the remote outbacks of Africa with a frightening looking, red, venomous snake looking right at her, she had a single thought racing through her mind –“why in the world did I risk my life for the secrets hidden in this cup of tea?” The unforgettable truth was searching for what she considered to be the weight loss “Holy Grail” - a liquid that ancient legends claimed completely erased hunger pains and food craving. The fable had her hooked, intrigued her to the state…

A key challenge in the study of CAM in the western context has been defining and conceptualizing the term complementary and alternative medicine. A survey of existing literature on the subject reveals the term CAM has no uniform definition, contributing to the difficulty in understanding the socio-economic, political and cultural dynamic of health and medical practices captured in the term (Gerard Bodeker & Kronenberg, 2002; Coulter & Willis, 2004; Makhamreh, Harrington, Himonga, & Hundt, 2014;…

Since inception of knowledge about the usefulness, out of 258,650 species of higher plants 10% are considered to be useful for curing the diseases. (Shinwari 2010). From the human civilization different systems of treatments like Ayurveda, Unani, Naturopathy, Sidha, Homeopathy and many more have been devised ; but the source almost remain same i.e., medicinal plants for the treatment of human diseases (Prasad S.H.K.R 2011) .According WHO (The world health organization) 80% of the earth’s…