Alternative Medicine

                                           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.