In at least one point in life, when people contract an illness, a hot tea or soup was made to help alleviate the illness, or to eat when you could not eat regular solids. This routine can be an everyday example of alternative medicine and how it can affect society in progressing on without regular pharmaceutical remedies. Due to the freedom that America brings, people are free to do whatever they want, within some restrictions. One of the many ways that America allows it’s people to do within those restrictions is study medicine that helps the people get better in their overall health. In relation to the American Dream, the field of alternative medicine will continue to mature and further mystify people on how it works, but will continue to
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Americans have a belief that anything that is suggested to be healthy and natural is great, whether they are eating organic fruits and vegetables, or just living a healthy lifestyle overall. This can often lead to the placebo effect being used in this form of medicine. According to Insight Journal, “The Placebo effect confirms the importance of mind-body medicine and is a valuable intervention” (Insight Journal). When people undergo these alternative procedures, they are often met with this effect of mind and body, causing them to receive treatment by their own bodies. Socially, people are becoming more accepting towards this form of medicine due to its benefits becoming better than the pharmaceutical remedies that are usually prescribed to patients by their …show more content…
Alternative treatments are shown to be a very effective resource for people, because of the different forms of reasoning behind different forms of treatment. For example, “acupuncture is a miracle worker: when Mayo Clinic researchers gave 22 people with tennis elbow treatment, eighty percent got complete relief and ten percent received less pain and more mobility” (Kane & Liao). Acupuncture is used for many different reasons, whether it being therapy or pain-relief. There are many other treatments that have been proven to be as effective as this one such as yoga being used to stretch muscles and relieving one’s body. Positives can be seen when dealing with physical injuries, but viruses are still a mystery up to this point. Since this is a chemical and physiological issue, the only way to deal with this is to counter-act these illnesses via oils and vitamins. “According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey… seventeen point seven percent of American adults had used a non-vitamin/non-mineral product in the past year” (NCCIH). Going back to the publicity side of it, people are now realizing how great of an innovation alternative medicine is for our society. People are getting much better, much faster due to the vitamins and minerals that they take on a regular basis. Overall, alternative medicine has been proven worthy as an opposing factor to
Americans have a belief that anything that is suggested to be healthy and natural is great, whether they are eating organic fruits and vegetables, or just living a healthy lifestyle overall. This can often lead to the placebo effect being used in this form of medicine. According to Insight Journal, “The Placebo effect confirms the importance of mind-body medicine and is a valuable intervention” (Insight Journal). When people undergo these alternative procedures, they are often met with this effect of mind and body, causing them to receive treatment by their own bodies. Socially, people are becoming more accepting towards this form of medicine due to its benefits becoming better than the pharmaceutical remedies that are usually prescribed to patients by their …show more content…
Alternative treatments are shown to be a very effective resource for people, because of the different forms of reasoning behind different forms of treatment. For example, “acupuncture is a miracle worker: when Mayo Clinic researchers gave 22 people with tennis elbow treatment, eighty percent got complete relief and ten percent received less pain and more mobility” (Kane & Liao). Acupuncture is used for many different reasons, whether it being therapy or pain-relief. There are many other treatments that have been proven to be as effective as this one such as yoga being used to stretch muscles and relieving one’s body. Positives can be seen when dealing with physical injuries, but viruses are still a mystery up to this point. Since this is a chemical and physiological issue, the only way to deal with this is to counter-act these illnesses via oils and vitamins. “According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey… seventeen point seven percent of American adults had used a non-vitamin/non-mineral product in the past year” (NCCIH). Going back to the publicity side of it, people are now realizing how great of an innovation alternative medicine is for our society. People are getting much better, much faster due to the vitamins and minerals that they take on a regular basis. Overall, alternative medicine has been proven worthy as an opposing factor to