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| What Is Better? Conventional Medicine or Alternative Medicine |
By:
Carol Bell |
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Traditional medicines is losing its ground in the minds of people, and predictably so - so they are no longer regarded as the panacea therapy by most people. Queries now haunt traditional medical practices as the public's primary worry has shifted to protecting their family's lives and their own. The attention has turned towards complementary medicine - which is gaining respect in the field of health care and it is becoming the benchmark as conventional healthcare fails to produce satisfactory results.
Television and other forms of mass media continue to endorse medications that guarantee to ease and contain known diseases. What is more, the public is vulnerable and believes adverts where a completely unknown person promotes a certain drug. The same happens when advertisements on magazines try to carelessly mention or explain the side effects of a drug. These results result in a deviation of the norm as people choose complementary health care instead. Let us examine the side effect profile of a common hormone replacement therapy drug, called Premarin. Migraine headaches are not unusual but a person using the drug may also have chest pain, confusion with accompanying memory problems and the possibility of swelling in their legs and feet.
These are all results of menopause and can be easily controlled by herbal medicines, which is a combination of cohosh and dong quai, a safe and impressive therapy for women of this age. Most individuals are accustomed to use allopathic medicines, also known as western healthcare, which focuses mainly on the illness and the consequent drug therapy. Whereas, alternative healthcare on the other hand targets the root of discomfort consequently curing the entire body. Thus individuals want to discover more about the prescribed medication, which can worsen the illness rather than cure it. These after effects have prompted individuals to try safer, natural and better options for overseeing their health.
Complementary health care is bit by bit taking center stage where even allopathic practitioners are prescribing these for the treatment of several complaints. The healthcare profession is starting to become aware of the good contributions made to good health by herbs, yoga, acupuncture, massage therapy, and holistic living. Hopefully, as years pass by, complementary health care can be expected to present better and safer routes to health care. |
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