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The Alternative Cure Advantage
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Sometimes the most important aspects of a subject are not
immediately obvious. Keep reading to get the complete picture.
Alternative medicine believes that natural health is a consequence
of a variety of different sources coming together.
Thus it chooses the best from various options available,
in order to provide good health. It does so by building
the strong points, preventing the weak ones, and generally
dictating a lifestyle that is naturally healthy. Alternative
medicine branches that promote natural good health include
herbalism, natural hygiene, naturotherapy, and nutripathy.
Nowadays it has become common to provide these, as complementary
therapies to conventional methods of treatment.
Terms like alternative medicine and natural health always
seem to get associated with the Far East. It should be noted
that most of the core concepts behind natural health are
of European origin. In the old age the only health care
that was available to the common man was self care. While
medical science existed in a very rudimentary state, it
was by no means as prolific as it is today.
Most of the "doctors" in that era were referred to as "folk
healers" (people who heal other people) and their medical
qualification was nothing more than a short apprenticeship
under some sort of superior. At the time of the Revolutionary
War, practicing the art of medicinal healing was looked
upon as a diversion, something to dabble in when you had
time to spare. It was supposed to be something that an individual
did when not doing a regular job.
Folk remedies were handed down from one generation to the
next. Men and women who had learned these remedies simply
applied them to everyday life like their predecessors. In
this way, matters like childbirth, injuries, and illness
were taken care of.
Geographical distance and biological diversity naturally
made these folk remedies different in different places.
So, while the roots of such healing can be traced to Europe,
once they had been adapted to the Americas, they were not
so readily recognizable.
In 1830, Frances Wright and other reformers and activists
started the Popular Health Movement. This was a period when
advances in medical science were forcing contemporary doctors
to think in terms that would have been sacrilegious to their
elders. Frustrated by these new developments, proponents
of the Popular Health Movement sought to enforce the usage
of older methods into the practice of modern medical professionals.
While some good has resulted (in the long run and with the
help of understanding provided by modern research), it has
to be admitted that the Popular Health Movement also caused
some medical blunders. Some natural health concepts that
arose as a result of the Popular Health Movement are: Hydrotherapy,
Herbalism, Eclectic Medicine, and Natural Hygiene.
Thomsonianism is one of the earliest approaches to modern
western herbalism and it was founded by Samuel Thompson
around the year 1820. The Association of Eclectic Physicians,
an organization of herbals doctors, was found in Wooster
Beech. At its very height, eclecticism was practiced by
over twenty thousand qualified doctors in the United States.
By 1939, medical schools were being largely influenced by
philanthropists, and when these schools failed to support
eclecticism, it slowly died out.
Hydrotherapy was another branch of natural health and it
concerned itself with the application of water to the human
body. Though using only water as means of staying healthy
might sound a bit silly, for that time period it was a good
thing. Hydrotherapy advocates were very vocal about the
importance of personal habits such as diet, dress, clean
water, fresh air, exercise, sunshine, and herbs. Personal
hygiene as it is followed today was not always such an important
issue.
Hydrotherapy was conveying a very important message. Origins
of hydrotherapy can be traced back to Europe in the Roman
era when spas and hot mineral springs were a common way
for people to cleanse their bodies.
The European system of hydrotherapy was first introduced
to the United States in 1844 by the founder of Natural Hygiene,
Dr. Joel Shew. Dr. Shew later on enhanced hydrotherapy by
focusing on its other aspects like fresh air, lots of sunshine,
a good diet plan, and an exercise routine. In 1853 he established
the college of Hygieo Therapy. The American Natural Hygiene
Society was founded in 1948.
Eventually, hydrotherapy had to give way to allopathy. This
was largely brought about by the fact that the people supporting
allopathy viewed hydrotherapy as a science of quacks because
hydrotherapy was so closely associated with the female social
activists of that era. The core belief of natural health
therapy is that all issues related to health, sickness,
and healing can be overcome through simple means like prevention
and a change in individual lifestyle.
Natural health follows the oldest rule of medicine: prevention
is better than cure. In view of this, natural health therapies
are supposed to be totally in control of the individual
and not the doctor or healer.
The "natural" in the term natural health literally refers
to the physical world in which we live, or nature. This
is but another way of saying that according to natural health
therapy all disease and illness is nothing more than a natural
reaction to some other natural action. It is important to
remember that natural health does not have anything to do
with faith or psychic healing which are supernatural concepts
and hence, by definition, not part of nature.
This difference is also the biggest distinguishing factor
between natural health therapies of European origin and
Eastern alternative medicinal theories that often rely on
belief systems such as spirituality, karma, ancestral forces,
personal auras, or energy flows. None of these can be perceived
by our normal senses and hence the Europe-born natural health
theories do not subscribe to them. Going even further, natural
health does not concern itself with the origin of life,
any religious beliefs, extra-dimensional worlds, magic,
and new age mysticism. |
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