...Homeopathy and Naturopathy: Nature Benefiting Nurture According to the 2009 Milliman Medical Index, an average family of four, covered by an employer-sponsored preferred provider organization (PPO) insurance plan, will still spend almost $17,000 in medical expenses annually. Traditional doctors charge outrageous prices for medical care that is generated to target a broad array of ailments as well as prescribe chemically infused drugs that cause harmful side effects. Traditional prescriptions also lack a singular healing focus, and target multiple issues-even when unneeded. Alternative medical options are growing more popular as individuals branch out in search of more natural healing options. Naturopathic and Homeopathic treatments are becoming more influential as individuals search for a way to avoid harmful side effects, courtesy of chemically infused drugs, as well as less expensive forms of medical care. The principle of Homeopathy has been known since the time of Hippocrates, the founder of medicine, around 450. Over a thousand years later Paracelsus, a Swiss alchemist, employed the same system based on the principle of ‘like cures like’. In the late 18th century Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, an accomplished and admired German physician evolved the concept of Homeopathy. Disgusted with the inhumane and at times barbaric medical practices of the time, he began to develop and practice safe, gentle, and effective methods of healing. Dr. Hahnemann...
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...that have evolved independently over time in different cultures and apart from conventional medicine or Western medicine (George et.al, 2013). These include ancient healing systems, homeopathy and naturopathy. Ancient Healing Systems Homeopathy Homeopathy is an alternative medical system developed in Germany at the end of the 18th century by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. The medical philosophy and practice was based on the idea that the body has the ability to heal itself. It is also based on the principle and theory that you can treat “like with like” or The Law of Similar(Gregg, 2010). This means that a substance which causes symptoms when taken in a large quantity can be used as a cure for the same symptoms when used in a small quantity (Saha, 2014). Homeopathy is one of the oldest and most popular complementary alternative medicines worldwide (Schmacke et.al 2014) that is safe, gentle, and natural system of healing that works with the patient’s body to relieve symptoms, restore itself, and improve one’s overall health. Homeopathic remedies are derived from substances that come from plants, minerals, or animals, such as red onion, arnica (mountain herb), crushed whole bees, white arsenic, poison ivy, belladonna (deadly nightshade), and stinging nettle (Vogel, 2012). Naturopathy Naturopathy is a distinct type of primary care medicine that blends age-old healing traditions with scientific advances and current research. It is guided by a unique set of principles that recognize the body’s...
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...Practitioners Here, But None Over There. Make A Stand, If You Dare Some of us practitioners may feel challenged or even taken aback by this article. This is not an academic exercise. The intention is, that you are moved, touched and inspired to make a difference to your own, and your neighbours’ wellbeing. Let go of all those excuses and lend a hand. Remember those days when you were starting out in natural medicine? Oh the idealism, the passion! Now however, you’ve been through the machinations of marketing yourself as a business, the red tape of administration and more. You’ve probably even built your suit of armour and have settled into your own little patch. Well here’s the gristle my friends. Government reports indicate that morbidity and mortality are up to 10% higher amongst the country Victorian populace, compared to all other Australian regions! Who would have thought! Country Victorian’s dying younger with more illnesses? Is the status quo of health, education, recreation and welfare services to overwhelming for us to think about? Are we all losing through inaction? I’m sure I don’t have to spell out to you, the price of ignorance. What you may know is that, you’re a living part of a middle class, city centric, western natural medicine, consumption phenomena. Only 2% of Natural Medicine practitioners practise within the rural sector of Victoria. You’ve probably worked out, that, per capita there’s a greater proportion of Doctors in the bush...
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...1 Alternative Medicine 101 By Jo Mendoza The term Alternative Medicine is somewhat erroneous since it was already in effect long before conventional medicine was introduced. Alternative Medicine is the natural treatment of disease which came before the tech nologically-based practices of conventional medicine. In this aspect, alternative medicine is traditional while conventional medicine is relatively new. Nevertheless, alternative medicine is termed as such since conventional or traditional Western medicine is the norm that is taught in all the medical schools and applied in most hospitals. There is a wide variety of alternative medicine that has accumulated over the years through different cultures. Whole medical systems such as homeopathic medicine, a treatment that originated in Europe, which stimulates the body’s ability to heal itself; Naturopathic medicine, also from Europe, a system that uses dietary and lifestyle changes as well as herbs, massages, and joint manipulation; traditional Chinese medicine from China which uses herbs, meditation, and acupuncture to correct the imbalance of yin and yang which causes the disease; and Ayurvedic medicine, a medical system from India that integrates the body, mind, and spirit to prevent and treat disease. A practitioner of alternative medicine tends to focus on the whole person when making diagnoses. They take great pains to figure out how one body system affects another. Cancer, for example, is seen...
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...Running head: ETHICAL STUDY REVIEW 1 Ethical Study Review Trina Windfield Grand Canyon University: HLT-520: Legal and Ethical Principles in Health Care January 22, 2014 Running head: ETHICAL STUDY REVIEW 2 Ethical Study Review For the elderly, ethics deals with how they want to be treated and are allowed to make their own decisions. Family members who are caregivers on an ethical level have to always do what is right for the patient even when no one is looking. In this ethical study assignment, the patient is a 96-year-old male that has terminal liver cancer, admitted to the ICU with symptoms of confusion, underweight and underfed, along with bruises which are believed to be a part of the liver disorder. The daughter of the patient who is presumed to be the caregiver and a naturopathic physician insists that her father can be cured by her administering unknown substances which appear to put her father in pain. The daughter has insisted these are life-saving interventions. The healthcare staff is in need of some assistance on how to care for the patient due to their belief that the daughter is hastening the death of her father. The writer has been asked to assess the dimensions of the ethical dilemma that is at hand, discuss the issues that are involved and apply the ethical principles and the methods of ethical decision making. What are the Dimensions of the Ethical Dilemma? The healthcare staff has reached out for assistance in how to handle...
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...For instance, would you say you were mindful that naturopathy involves a wide exhibit of mending expressions? A percentage of the numerous social insurance trains that are taught in naturopathic drug programs incorporate needle therapy, fragrant healing, Ayurvedic solution, herbology, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, and all encompassing and nutritious directing, among others. Direction in naturopathy schools incorporates the exceptional history and roots of naturopathic prescription. Understudies taking an interest in naturopathic courses find that Benedict Lust, the author of the American School of Naturopathy in the mid 1900s advanced this recuperating workmanship, which started from India. One of the exceptional attractions of naturopathic pharmaceutical is that it is not intrusive, and normally naturopathic specialists frequently use characteristic cures like nutritious advising, minerals, herbs and supplements to treat regular conditions and diseases. Sometimes, naturopathy professionals might likewise perform diagnostics like lab work and x-beams to adequately create treatment...
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...with all of its ferocity, and then radiotherapy. Her ND helped her fight the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. He prescribed natural therapies to help her combat the nausea and vomiting. He helped her with the peripheral neuropathy and nerve damage. And he supported her to defeat the undeniable physical and emotional pain. Flash forward seven years, my mother is here as a living proof that although radiation and chemotherapy may be an integral part of the breast cancer treatment, they are not what cure cancer. I observed how Naturopathic medicine served to support the body’s natural defenses and recovery systems to minimize side effects and boost recovery time. Moreover, Naturopathy helped her to better deal with the mental-emotional aspects of the...
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...The Health Freedom Movement is a coalition which opposes the regulation of health practices, while advocating for an increased level of access to the non-traditional health care, which include the complementary and integrative health approaches we've been discussing throughout the semester. This movement is occurring in various parts of the country, as well as in other parts of the world. There are a number of different nonprofits groups supporting this movement. According to the article, Health Freedom, there are at least seven states that enacted legislation and allowed the practice of complementary and alternative medicine without needing a license to do so (Orlando, 2013). The states that allow unlicensed practitioners of complementary...
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...body streaming) * Rendam-rendam (Sitz bath) * Sesegar Bayu (body rejuvenating treatment * Jari-jemari (hand and foot soak) * | * Pulse Reading * Post natal care * Acupuncture * Moxibustion * Cupping * Guasha * Qi Gong/ Tai Chi * Tuinalogy * Meditation * Herbal Medicine (Raw Herbs) * Herbal Products (Processed Pills, Packets) * QiaoDanJing * Foot Reflexology * Traditional Chiropractic Care * Chinese Diagnosis | * Pulse reading * Post natal care * Ayurveda * Siddha * Unani * Yoga * Naturopathy (indian)?? * Reiki * Yoga * Dry Herb invigorating massage * Sand bundle massage * Marma Therapy * Shirodhara * Takradhara * Chakra Head & Shoulder massage * Aromatherapy face massage * Katee Vasthy * Nasyam * Thalapothichil (Head Pack) * Sirovasti * Navarakizhi * Pizhichil * Elakizhi * Dhara * Abhyangam * | * Acupressure * Osteopathy * Aromatherapy * Naturopathy * Detox program * Light therapy * Music therapy * Chromo therapy * Meditation * Auricular therapy * Bach Flower therapy * Chelation therapy * Cellular therapy * Colonics * Psychotherapy * Movement therapy * Craniosacral therapy * Electropathy * Iridology * Hydrotherapy *...
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...often require caregivers to make decisions that may break some ethical norm or contradict some ethical values. In the given situation, decision must be made depending upon various dimensions of dilemma and the issues related to the same; and of course the ethical principles: base for decision making. Dimensions of given Ethical dilemma: * Relevant information Here, the information given about the patient includes that a male patient is 96 years of age and having a terminal liver cancer admitted in Intensive care unit (ICU). If we take a look on his physical dimensions; he looks very skinny, underfed and also covered with bruises. Information about his caregivers include his own daughter, a naturopathy physician. She wants to cure his father with some tar like substance which smells like feces. While on the other hand, other...
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...Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has classified alternative medicines into five main categories: Whole medical systems, Mind-body medicine, Biologically based practices, Manipulative and body-based practices, and Energy medicine. The following paragraphs will briefly discuss each of these categories; and some of the common treatments utilized today. Whole medical systems are many practices that center on a philosophy, such as the power of nature or the presence of energy in your body. Examples include ancient healing systems that have origins from ayurveda from India and traditional Chinese medicine. There are two subcategories within the whole medical system; homeopathy and Naturopathy. Homeopathy uses minute doses of a substance that causes symptoms to stimulate the body’s self-healing response, and Naturopathy focuses on the use of noninvasive treatments to help your body heal through using massage, acupuncture, herbal remedies exercise, and lifestyle counseling. According to the 2007 NHIS, several mind and body practices ranked among the...
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...Marcus Altman Music Therapy 5/3/2017 MUS 161 VH Listening to Music Music therapy is a method that has been around as long as music itself. Music therapy is a type of treatment used in Naturopathy Medicine, the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional who has completed and approved music therapy program (American Music Therapy Association, 2014). Music therapy consists of a process where music therapists harness the many components of music in order to help clients improve their everyday physical and mental health. There are a few specific areas that music therapists help their clients with. These include cognitive functions, emotional development, motor skills, social skills,...
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...Aromatherapy etc. It is also known as the traditional medicine as it has been used for very long time. (In today's worled, it has been given a lote of prestige and thus, these subject are going huge amount of popularity among the people which inspired a lote of students to come forward and take up this subject and motivated them to give new direction to the subject and motivated them to give new direction to the subject and enamine the alternative medical world with their light.) Alternative Medicine means any form of medicine that is outside the mainstream of western medicine. There are more than 100 systems of alternative Medicines which are still in practice all over the world. Some of the very popular systems are Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Naturopathy, Yoga, Acupressure, Magnetotherapy, Indo-Allopathy, Electro Homeopathy, Biochemic, Bach Flower Remedies, Gem & Teletherapy, Aroma Therapy, Reiki, Spiritual Healing, Oriental Diagnosis & Therapy, music Therapy etc. After decades of serious obsession with modern medicine, recently there has been a boom in various systems of Alternative medicines and more and more people in general and patients in particular are opting for these traditional systems of maintaining health and curing diseases. One of the most important reasons for this renewed...
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...Acupuncture Acupuncture is a treatment derived from ancient Chinese medicine in which fine needles are inserted at certain points in the body for therapeutic or preventative purposes. It is often seen as a form of complementary or alternative medicine, although it is used in many general practises as well as the majority of pain clinics and hospices in the UK. Western medicine is the use of acupuncture after a proper diagnosis. It is based on scientific evidence that show the treatment can stimulate nerves under the skin and in muscle tissue. This results in the body producing pain and relieving substances such as endorphins. Acupuncture practitioners sometimes called acupuncturists use acupuncture to treat a wide range of health conditions such as headaches, lower back pain but sometimes used in an attempt to help people with conditions such as anxiety to asthma. The national institute for health and care excellence only recommends considering acupuncture as a treatment option for chronic lower back pain, chronic tension type headaches and migraines. When it is carried out by a qualified practitioner. Acupuncture is generally very safe and some people may experience some side effects such has feeling drowsy or dizzy but these are usually mild and short lived. Acupuncture is available on the NHS most often from GP’s or physiotherapist although access is limited. Most acupuncture patients pay for private treatment. The cost varies widely between practitioners. Initial...
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...derivative. Dioscorides did not have access to research tools that are available today to identify just how a plant interacts with our bodies rather his methods were based on visual and personal observations. The philosophies of herbal medicines are still primarily based on the energetic effects of the plant rather than scientific knowledge of chemicals found within the plant and their uses. Research however has pointed out that isolated phytochemicals can be far more toxic and have far more side effects than when the whole plant preparation. Dioscorides described the energetic action of the whole plant within his text. Naturopathy recognises that the whole plant is required to assist and support our bodies to self-heal. This notion supports the Naturopathic philosophy of holism where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In conclusion Naturopathy modalities stem from thousands of years of empirical documented evidence from early Egyptian medicine that was interpreted and evolved by Greek physicians around 500 B.C to its contributing forefathers including Hippocrates, Lust, Galen and Dioscorides; each of which made contributions towards the philosophical foundations which are very much adhered to by the Naturopathic Practitioner of the 21st Century. While very little is known about Pedanius Dioscorides, his life and education except for his passion and the mark he left in history as a leading scientist of his time in the field of pharmacopeia. De Materia Medica was...
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