Holistic Medicine

Holistic Medicine

Holistic Medicine is a method of healing using orthodox and alternative medicine and techniques. It looks at the illness in relation to all of the influencing factors, physiological, psychological, and social rather than looking at the illness on it's own. Holism is seen as positive well being, including social, emotional, mental and societal aspects as well as physical ones and is seen to be affected by social, environmental economic and political factors, Ewles and Simnett (1999).

Holistic medicine includes treatments & techniques such as; Acupressure , Acupuncture, Alexander Technique, Apitherapy, Aromatherapy, Aura Soma, Ayurveda, Bach Flowers, Biofeedback, Breathing Relaxation, Breathwork, Chelation Therapy, Chinese Medicine, Chiropractic, Clay Therapy, Color Photostimulation, Cranial Osteopathy, Dreamwork, Exercise, Feldenkrais, Feng Shui Gemstones, Guided Imagery, Healing Humor, Herbology, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, Iridology, Kinesiology, Leech Therapy, Lightstreams: Gemstones, Macrobiotic, Magnetic Therapy, Massage: Swedish, Massage: Shiatsu, Massage: On site/chair, Massage: Polarity Therapy, Massage: Myofascia, Meditation, Meditation: Transcendental, Music Therapy, Naturopathy, Nutrition, Pranic Healing, QiGong, Reflexology, Reiki, Rolfing, Tai Chi Chuan, Therapeutic Touch, Transcendental Meditation, Trager and Yoga.

In holistic medicine there is little that can't be treated, broken bones and many fatal diseases can not be cured but their symptoms can be alleviated. Holistic treatments such as Crystal Healing are used to increase the quality of life for the patient. Crystals are very useful things but I was always skeptical, that is, until I was talking to a friend about the problem I had while using computers. I was getting very frequent headaches that were so bad that I could not work. As most of my life is spent infront of, or very near to, computers it was a very severe problem. It turned out that the friend was a Reiki Master and she explained, as simply as she could as I was not in the mood for anything heavy, that the body works with a system of energy and that the system works in the opposite way to electricity (sort of like a positive/negative, clockwise/anti-clockwise relationship). It was this that was leading to, a sort of, friction that was causing the headaches. She suggested that I use a quartz crystal to help. Luckily a had a big lump of the stuff in the loft (with all my other schoolboy stuff) so I brought it down and placed it on the desk. I placed some lime oil in an oil burner nearby (also a suggestion of my friend) and carried on working as normal. Strangely the headaches went! I had tried everything, I had seen various doctors, and even a few opticians, with no success. It was so successful that I found that I could not deny that it must have had something to do with the crystal and the opposite energy thing. I then decided to change all my CRT monitors and move over to LCD. It was an expensive thing to do as it was in the early days of LCD and I had 6 monitors and a television in the room! My theory was that LCD monitors would use less energy and therefore reduce the problem still further. Guess what? I have only had a few headaches since I did this and that was a good few years ago.

Looking at the above experience and the positive results gained from using a holistic approach to my problem I now find that I can not bring myself to be critical of any of the treatments available in holistic medicine. Yes I still wonder if they really work but then I find myself thinking back to the period in my life when it looked like I was going to have to stop using computers! I now reserve judgement on holistic medicine until such time as I have the need of it or I meet somebody who has had first hand experience. Sorry I will always be a Doubting Thomas but atleast I will now give any form of holistic medicine a chance without writing it off without thought (which I had done previously).

I hope that, if you have a problem and you need help, you take the time to look into holistic medicine and give it the chance that I gave it. Conventional medicine had failed me and I had accepted that I would just have to live with it but Holistic Medicine rid the problem completely!

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