Ayurveda

Traditional Healing “Consumer Health, What’s considered an alternative therapy is a moving target. Get the facts about what CAM means and its changing role in health care” By Mayo Clinic Staff, talks about unconventional ways of healing. Today with many diverse medications on the market, people are looking for alternative treatments. Complementary and alternative medicine is what it is called or CAM for short. CAM treatments are classified as: whole medical systems, mind-body medicine,…

Folk Medicine and the Impact on Modern Medicine Recently, studies of folklore have been an interesting topic for many scholars. Examples of folklore include songs, art, stories, myths and medicine. Folklore Medicine is a tradition that shares ideas and common beliefs in a specific geographic area that is common in part of the United States of America. Folklore medicine includes most of the Eastern region of the United States, and consist of rooted experiences and skills shared by preview…

Calabro, Sara. "Defining Complementary and Alternative Medicine." EverydayHealth.com. Web. 19 June 2015. Complementary medicine works along the side of traditional medicine, in a partnership. Alternative medicine is not a traditional approach, this method is used instead of traditional medicine. Complementary and Alternative medicine comes together becomes Integrated medicine. There are five recognized categories: mind-body medicine, whole medicine systems, manipulative and body-base practices,…

As people age, the body deteriorates resulting in pain and diseases. Thousands of accidents happen each year that result in injuries. As well as thousands of children are born with birth defects and need to learn to adapt. Any kind of injuries or diseases need to be tended to by someone who specializes in restoring normal body functions which would be a licensed physical therapist. Physical therapy is the treatment of injuries or diseases of the muscles and/or joints with exercises, massages or…

HERBAL REMEDIES You live life how it is, you wake up go to work or school. You eat food and drink water. Then once you touch a doorknob to open the door, but you don’t know that the door knob was previously touched by a person who coughed into his hands. You get sick with a minor flu and a fever, so what is next? Do you go to your doctor knowing she can only see you in like two weeks? She is really busy being a professional in medicine and health. Do you go to the hospital, but is…

As I mentioned it above, Ficino’s doctrine of spiritual medicine was influential for the development of vitalist medicine during the Renaissance. For instance, Paracelsus, who establishes the importance of chemical analysis in the study of diseases and their cures, also believed on importance of the role of spirits in medicine. According to Paracelsus, God creates things in prime matter and not in its ultimate matter, which is the actual constitution of sensible things. This prime matter is…

Medicine in today's world is described as "the art or science of restoring or preserving health or due physical condition, as by means of drugs, surgical operations or appliances, or manipulations" (Dictionary.com). This is very different from the Indiginous people's perspective after viewing the assigned readings. One thing that stood out to me was in the reading Powers Conferred on the Medicine Man. It stated "the standard practice in many tribes of the medicine man using a sucking device,…

Acupuncture: The Most Effective Alternative Medical Treatment Introduction to Acupuncture Treatment Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medical procedure that heals different maladies and works towards the wellness of your health. Acupuncture works by stimulating specific points on the skin surface using needles. These points are normally called to as the acupuncture points. The needles inserted on the acupuncture points trigger a complex interaction of body regulating processes' powerhouse…

One of the home remedies for gout that I haven't tried is Epsom salts. So I have no direct experience of its effectiveness. But I have done a deal of research and have found many instances where people have spoken about how well it worked for them, and I have discovered many health articles on the subject which also seem to speak highly of it. So, bearing in mind that I cannot vouch for its effectiveness -- although I've no reason to believe that it isn't as good as people say -- here's a…

Traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine use distinctive approaches in healing and have distant modes of doctor-patient interaction. Despite their contrasting healing practices and cultures, they share a number of similarities and differences with regard to aspects of doctor-patient relationship or professional authority of doctors. To start with, traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine show both similarities and differences in the degree of formality of doctor-patient…