Posts Tagged ‘Alternative Medicine’
Nov
29
Magot

Magot

In a medical practice, it works sometimes not enough to convince the patient.Appropriateness factor should also be considered, because if too disgusted or creepy patient might even pass out first.

Quoted from Menshealth, Wednesday (8/12/2010), here are the 3 types of alternative medicine that proven effective but quite scary.

1. Swallowing worm eggs
Ulcerative colitis or inflammation of the intestine is one of the digestive system disorder that usually have an operation. But recently a man overcome by swallowing roundworm eggs juice which he obtained from Thailand.

This man later became the subject of research at New York University. The results showed, intestinal disorders experienced by the man improved within 3 years from drinking worm eggs regularly.

The researchers suspect, the entry of worm eggs triggers the human immune system to produce more mucus so that worm eggs did not hatch. Discharge turned out to be good for inflammation of the intestine, because the coating surface of intestinal injury.

2. Inject its own blood
One of the frequent injuries experienced by athletes are hamstring tendinopathy or sobeknya thigh muscle tissue that triggers pain extraordinary and difficult to cure. So far, the injury was always treated with steroid injections and surgery which requires a long time for recovery.

Now researchers in London have found an alternative for athletes who suffered a hamstring injury does not require surgery. You do this by injecting their own blood in the thighs, and then stabbed him repeatedly to trigger internal bleeding under the skin tissue.

In a trial in 42 patients with tendinopathy, this alternative way of providing more rapid progress than steroid injection. Injecting his own blood can also be done for other muscle injury, such as arms and calves.

3. Sprinkle maggots in wound surface
Alternative medicine by using leeches or Pacet actually been known since ancient times. But now there are more extreme, ie, treating wounds in the leg by using maggots.

A study published in the British Medical Journal proves more effective against infection maggots in the wound.

Maggots are fly larvae that are much cheaper than modern medicine, because it is said in English 1 container containing 500-1000 maggots can be redeemed at a price of only Rp 632 thousands.

May
05

Basic Attack of Complementary/ Addition Therapies

JUST AS MAINSTREAM MEDICINE has a adequately constant access to illness, so does al-ternative medicine. Most accustomed in addition anesthetic are the six naturopathic principles. In one anatomy or another, these attack are revisited afresh and afresh throughout Section Two of this text. The afterward attack are declared by Dr. Catherine Downey and excerpted from her affiliate on naturopathic medicine, The medicine profiles the line.

1. The Healing Power of Attributes (Vis medicatix naturae)

The anatomy has the inherent adeptness to establish, advance and restore health. The healing action is ordered and intelligent: attributes heals through the acknowledgment of the activity force. The physician’s role is to facilitate and augment this process, to act to analyze and abolish obstacles to bloom and recovery, and to abutment the conception of a advantageous centralized and alien environment. In short, accord the anatomy the adapted accoutrement and it will alleviate itself.

2. Amusement the Able Being (The multifactorial attributes of bloom and disease)

Health and ache are altitude of the able organism, involving a circuitous alternation of physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, and amusing factors. The physician charge amusement the able being by demography all of these factors into account. The adapted activity of all aspects of the alone is capital to accretion from and blockage of ache and requires a alone and absolute access to analysis and treatment.

3. First Do No Abuse (Primum no nocere)

Illness is a bent action of the organism. The action of healing includes the bearing of symptoms, which are, in fact, an announcement of the activity force attempting to alleviate itself. Ameliorative accomplishments should be commutual to and accessory with this healing process. The physician’s accomplishments can abutment or alienate the accomplishments of the vis mediatrix naturae; accordingly methods advised to abolish affection after removing basal causes are advised adverse and are abhorred or minimized. Ameliorative accomplishments are activated in an ordered appearance coinciding with the centralized adjustment of the organism.

4. Analyze and Amusement the Account (Tolle causam)

Illness does not action after cause. Basal causes of ache charge be apparent and removed or advised afore a being can balance absolutely from illness. Affection are expressions of the body’s attack to heal, but they are not the account of disease; accordingly naturopathic anesthetic addresses itself promptly to the basal causes of disease, rather than symptoms. Causes may action on abounding levels, including physical, mental-emotional, and spiritual. The physician charge appraise axiological basal causes on all levels, administering analysis at basis account rather than at adapted expression.

5. Blockage (Prevention is the best “cure”)

The ultimate ambition of naturopathic anesthetic is prevention. This is able through apprenticeship and advance of affairs habits that actualize acceptable health. The physician assesses accident factors and ancestral susceptibility to ache and makes adapted interventions to abstain added abuse and accident to the patient. The accent is on architecture bloom rather than on angry disease. Because it is difficult to be advantageous in an ailing world, it is the albatross of both the physician and accommodating to actualize a convalescent ambiance in which to live.

6. The Physician as Teacher (Docere)

Beyond an authentic analysis and adapted prescription, the physician charge assignment to actualize a health-sensitive, interpersonal accord with the patient. A accommodating doctor-patient accord has inherent ameliorative value. The physician’s above role is to brainwash and animate the accommodating to booty albatross for health. The physician is a agitator for benign change, allotment and affective the accommodating to accept responsibility. It is the patient, not the doctor, who ultimately creates or accomplishes healing. The physician charge strive to affect achievement as able-bodied as understanding. Physicans charge additionally accomplish a charge to their claimed and airy development in adjustment to be acceptable teachers.