Archive for September, 2007

Irritated with the symptoms of chronic back pain, arthritis, cancer, etc?

Complementary therapy is an effective option for the treatment of these diseases.

Complementary therapy is defined as any form of treatment provided by medical practitioners as effective for the prevention, treatment, or cure of any disease, ailments, physical or mental condition, deformity, defect or injury.

Complementary therapy has not been proven by conventional scientific methodology and/or accepted by statutory medical or health care authorities.

Complementary therapy includes the following things:

• Mind/body control
• Structural and energetic therapies
• Diet, nutrition, and lifestyle changes
• Bioelectromagnetic applications
• Biological and pharmacological treatments
• Traditional and ethnomedicine

Complementary therapy is a treatment used in addition to conventional treatment methods. Most experts recommend complementary therapy methods in treating the illness.

Conventional therapy can help in pain relief, but complementary therapy offers both pain relief and also support in changing your lifestyle to avoid future stress occurring.

Yoga, meditation, reiki, tai chi, pilates, are all form of complementary healing methods and sources of combating stress which are being introduced into the work place.

Here are the list of complementary therapies and benefits. You can select the right complementary therapy for your illness.

What is the difficulty in taking health vitamin?

Most of you are interested in taking high processed, homogenized, pasteurized, canned and prepackaged foods which are less in health vitamin content.

The discovery of health vitamin took place around 1914 by some scientists and surgeons.

The word vitamin comes from the word vital as in vital energy for life.

Some of you pick your own fruit and grow your own vegetables, while some others choose to rely on packaged, store bought fruits and veggies. These are not as healthy as natural foods.

Once you pick the food items from the plants they begin to loose their nutritional value if you keep them for longer time.

For instance, apples and tomatoes after picking from the tree they begin to lose their nutritional value, losing health vitamins during processing and shipping.

Your body needs health vitamin to boost your immune system, ward off colds and other viruses, and even keep you tempered. If you have health vitamin deficiency then there is a less chance to clot the blood when you cut yourself.

Millions of people are now using alternative cancer treatment methods either as a sole therapy or as an adjunct to traditional therapies.

Alternative cancer treatment is often used by patients whose current cancer treatment is no longer effective.

Some of the specific alternative cancer treatment methods that are used in treatment of cancer include:

Acupuncture:

Acupuncture is not used by itself as a cancer treatment option. To a certain extent, it can be used in combination with other alternative cancer treatment methods or conventional therapies.

It can be useful in lessening the symptoms and controlling pain and nausea associated with some cancer treatments.

Aromatherapy:

This alternative cancer treatment method can be highly effective in managing the undesirable effects of cancer treatments including nausea, helping with pain control after the surgery and chemotherapy, restlessness, anxiety, and stress.

Herbal remedies:

Some of the herbal combinations are dependent on type of cancer, but some herbal medicines help to reduce nausea associated with chemotherapy. Some of the herbs used as alternative cancer treatment are:

Essiac: It is an herbal preparation used as a treatment for cancer.

Magnetic therapy is an ancient form of alternative medicine. It is a common form of healing in India, China, and France.

Only from the last two decades it is growing in popularity in America.

You can found magnetic therapy everywhere in nature and is called by many other names.

Chinese often call this energy as “chi” and it can be used when practicing acupuncture. Any material that is capable of becoming magnetized does so by aligning groups of atoms. This is called as magnetic energy field.

Human body is mainly made up of cells. All these cells can renovate themselves, and practitioners of magnetic therapy believe that these cells can be manipulated through the use of magnets.

The same energy is used to recharge these magnetic cells as they carry down can become magnified through the energy contained in magnets.

Not all the energy comes from the magnetic therapy is for the purpose of healing.

If you are concerned about the effects of computers and cell phones these types of magnetic therapy is harmful. It can cause side effects like headaches, memory loss, even tumors also.

Complementary and alternative medicine is also referred to as CAM.

CAM is a term used by the conventional medical practitioners to designate treatments that are not considered as conventional or mainstream.

The system of complementary and alternative medicine includes any treatment or system of medicine that is not proven by rigorous scientific tests.

Actually CAM consists of both complementary and alternative medicine systems and treatments. Complementary and alternative medicine treatments are also be used in conjunction with conventional medical treatment to extend and complement those therapies.

For instance, hypnosis helps you in controlling pain after surgery is a complementary treatment.

Sometimes alternative therapy uses alternate therapy instead of a conventional medical treatment for illness. For instance, gluten and casein free diet helps to control the symptoms of autism or ADHD rather than using medication.

Integrative medicine is also a part of complementary and alternative medicine. Most of the doctors are integrating some specific CAM therapies into their conventional practices.

It can only be done if there is any scientific evidence that proves the treatment is safe and effective. For instance, integrative medicine that has become conventional practice can be used as a treatment for asthma.

The eyes are the soul of your body. So the regular examination of your eyes is essential.

Iridology offers a detailed examination of patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris for information about your systemic health.

Iridology is an alternative medical practice. This practice involves the diagnosis of the disease by studying the iris of the eye.

Iridologists said that the areas of the eye correspond to bodily systems and areas of the body. Any changes in the iris can cause problems in that area of the body.

Iridology is not a method of treatment and is used as a diagnostic tool. According to iridologists, markings, patterns, and irregularities in the iris can emphasize a tendency toward problems with a particular organ group or system, allowing them to prescribe treatments.

Most of the iridologists use iridology in combination with a system of medicine such as reflexology therapy or homeopathy medicine.

In recent years, iridology uses equipment such as a flashlight and magnifying glass, cameras, slit-eye microscopes or other methods to examine your irises for tissue changes.

They see with iris charts that divide the eye into as many as 80 or 90 zones. Each zone indicates an area of your body.

How to improve your sexual prowess? Kama sutra offers you a wide variety of foods and exercises, which helps you a lot.

Kama sutra is an ancient Indian text on human sexual behavior. It is considered as the standard work on love.

Kama sutra is an alternative health issue which includes nutrition and exercise geared towards increasing your sexual ability and enjoyment.

Foods recommended by Kama sutra:

The foods that you should eat include:

• Eat wheat flour cake.
• Eat rice pudding mixed with wild honey. It is believed to give lovers strength.
• Grind pumpkin seeds and then mix them with almonds and sugar cane root, strips of bamboo and then poured into the milk and honey. Pumpkin seeds are the excellent source of zinc, which id necessary for sexual function in men. A zinc deficiency can cause impotence. You can take oysters which are high in zinc content.
• Every morning at the time of sunrise, drink milk with honey. Honey also contains a level of zinc. Honey is considered as aphrodisiac not only for the level of zinc but mostly for its consistency, sweetness and color. It will give you the sugar boost which temporarily increases your energy.

Want to treat your illness? You need to find an efficient health care provider.

When you decided to find a health practitioner, there are many things that you need to consider.

You will immediately observe how hard it becomes to find a good practitioner who suits all your need and who you feel comfortable.

Sometimes you can also visit some health care providers who may fool you with the qualifications that they actually have.

So, here are some great tips and steps that you can follow to help you to find a great practitioner.

• The first step in finding the perfect health care provider for you is to look for them who are located close to your area. You can do this by doing web site searches. Searching through the internet helps a lot in finding a great health care provider.
• After locating few health care providers in your area, the next step you need to do is find out as much information as possible. The greater the information you find the better you can take decision about the health care provider. You need to collect the information about their qualifications, their responsibilities, years of practice, and anything that you can know about them.