alternative medicine health care, complementary and alternative medicine I got to wondering if anything has changed in alternative medicine health care over the past couple years. With so many changes and potential reforms in traditional health care and insurance, I thought there may be something going on with complementary and alternative medicine too. I was wrong apart from some big health insurance providers offering coverage for alternative medicines. The attraction to alternative medicine health care for me is that it has not changed. The remedies are generations old, diverse and natural. With so many of our foods processed, air dirtied and medicines engineered in a lab it is refreshing to use medicines that come naturally from the earth and hardly need any cultivation before being stocked on store shelves.

The definition of alternative medicine may mean different things to different people but for me it comes down to natural remedies to cure common human ailments. There’s not that much else to it. I guess it also means finding medication that doesn’t call for a prescription which is always nice. One of my favorite organic ways to heal sun burns, which is relevant with it being July 1st is aloe. The natural healing agents found in the desert plant helped stopped my nose from peeling this week.