I am not an alternative medicine doctor. Yet I still practice alternative medicine health care every day of my life because I cook nutritious meals using fresh whole ingredients including herbs and spices every day. I use these ingredients predominantly because they add great flavor to food. However I learned that culinary herbs and spices have been used as a part of... Read More
I still hear a lot of people trying to figure out what is the meaning of alternative medicine. The reality is that alternative medicine is not easy to define, because there are many approaches within the world of alternative medicine. Some answer the question of what is alternative medicine with a definition that in simple terms boils down to something that is not... Read More
One of the great paradoxes of modern medicine is that many people with chronic conditions are either allergic or highly sensitive to the pharmaceutical drugs that offer cures. Those people either have to suffer the side effects of the drugs they're prescribed by their doctors, or they need to seek help from complementary and alternative medicine. The definition of... Read More
Becoming your family’s own alternative medicine doctor may actually be easier then you first expected. What I came to realize after asking myself, what is alternative medicine, is that alternative forms of treatment are all around a household. The kitchen is almost like a pharmacy for complementary and alternative medicine. This dawned on me, a couple weeks ago when I felt... Read More
There is something that is seriously funny which dawns upon you when you realize that you never truly knew or understood what something was, like what is alternative medicine, until you realized that this whole time you have been using it. I never really understood the question, what is alternative medicine, until a few years ago I realized I had already been using... Read More
I was reading a statistic online the other day that said that millions of Americans will contract painful arthritis as they age, typically first showing signs around the late 30s and early 40s. Furthermore, it stated that one in five people would experience some sort of arthritis related pains in their early 50s. My mom suffers from arthritis and she is in her mid 50s, and... Read More
I know there are some people who only seek alternative medicine health care or vica versa when the need arises but I think a mix of both alternative and western practices makes for the best treatment. For instance, cancer patients often only have a few options when it comes to treatment. Chemo is almost always the route taken; obviously, this choice puts the patient in a... Read More
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... Read More
I am a big time fan of utilizing alternative medicine health care for my medical needs. This fascination of mine with alternative medicine health care seeded during my youth, when I was always on prescribed medications and therefore was subjected to their many known and adverse side effects. Upon reaching adulthood, I decided that alternative medicine health care was a... Read More
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