Alternative
Medicine
Alternative Medicine is the term for medical products and
practices that are not part of standard care.
Alternative practices include homeopathy, traditional medicine,
chiropractic, and acupuncture, naturopathy, Ayurveda. These medicines are not
taught or used in Western medical schools or hospitals. This treatment is used
in culturally in eastern countries such as China, India and south Asia, also (Greek
culture only herbs) from ancient time.
Acupuncture is the method of treatment based on influencing
the body by inserting needles in the specific points of human body, called acupoints.
Research suggests that it can help relieve pain, and it is used for a wide
range of other complaints. In china this method used from 2000 years and
instrument for curing all diseases and illness. One example is using
acupuncture to help lessen some side effects of cancer treatment.
Ayurvedic medicine (“Ayurveda”) is one of the world's oldest
holistic (“whole-body”) healing systems. It was developed more than 3,000 years
ago in India. It’s based on the belief
that health and wellness depend on a delicate balance between the mind, body,
and spirit. Its main goal is to promote good health and fight disease. But
treatments may be geared toward specific health problems. Students of Ayurveda
therapy believe that everything in the universe – dead or alive – is connected.
If your mind, body, and spirit are in harmony with the universe, you have good
health. When something disrupts this balance, you get sick. It is balance of
life of physically and mentally. India has a research centers (The All India
Institute of Ayurveda) in Delhi and other cities. Bachelor of Ayurvedic
Medicine and Surgery (B.A.M.S.) is a professional degree in medicine focused on
Ayurveda in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries. It is
awarded after the study of five and a half years duration, including 1-year
internship. So it has a standard as and also they have General Practitioners
been studied western medical standard school. The General Practitioners work
like as western country standard. Ayurveda believes in curing disease from the
root cause rather than treating symptoms. While Ayurveda has been known to
treat all forms of diseases. This treatment very helpful for any kind of
diseases but it take long time to remove diseases from the root and also depend
the diseases stages.
Homeopathy is a natural form of medicine used by over 200
million people worldwide to treat both acute and chronic conditions. It is
based on the principle of ‘like cures like’. In other words, a substance taken
in small amounts will cure the same symptoms it causes if taken in large
amounts
Alternative medicine is treatments that are used instead of
standard medical treatments. About 40% of adults in the United States say they
use some form of alternative medicine.
