The headache example was a weak one. People all have degrees of severity with headaches; some tolerable, some not, other brain aneurysms like Dr. Brilliant pointed out above.
The example I like to use to describe how holisitic medicine works involves arthritis. Conventional "solutions" for this problem typically rely heavily on NSAIDs and other anti-inflammatories. While these may help with the pain experiences they do NOTHING to address the underlying reason that causes this joint inflammation. For instance, is this person overweight? Are they consuming foods that they are allergic to (for some reason wheat and dairy seem to cause people a lot of joint pains, as do the Solanaceae family, tomatos, peppers, tobacco, eggplant)? Lack of anti-inflammatory foods in their diet, including turmeric, wild yam (more specific for muscle), frankincense, and others.
In addition to addressing diet/lifestyle a holisitic practitioner may also include some supplements that are useful for reducing inflammation, a personal favourite of mine is MSM and the herbal anti-inflammatories I mentioned earlier (turmeric, frank... etc.), but there are literally hundreds of other natural health products/medical products out there that can help everything from Traumeel, to Tiger Balm, to Wobenzym. The key is that holistic medicine treats the PERSON, not the symptoms and is therefore individualized.
Too lazy to get articles but feel free to research the herbs and MSM as they have a sh*t-ton. Cheers.
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The headache example was a weak one. People all have degrees of severity with headaches; some tolerable, some not, other brain aneurysms like Dr. Brilliant pointed out above.
The example I like to use to describe how holisitic medicine works involves arthritis. Conventional "solutions" for this problem typically rely heavily on NSAIDs and other anti-inflammatories. While these may help with the pain experiences they do NOTHING to address the underlying reason that causes this joint inflammation. For instance, is this person overweight? Are they consuming foods that they are allergic to (for some reason wheat and dairy seem to cause people a lot of joint pains, as do the Solanaceae family, tomatos, peppers, tobacco, eggplant)? Lack of anti-inflammatory foods in their diet, including turmeric, wild yam (more specific for muscle), frankincense, and others.
In addition to addressing diet/lifestyle a holisitic practitioner may also include some supplements that are useful for reducing inflammation, a personal favourite of mine is MSM and the herbal anti-inflammatories I mentioned earlier (turmeric, frank... etc.), but there are literally hundreds of other natural health products/medical products out there that can help everything from Traumeel, to Tiger Balm, to Wobenzym. The key is that holistic medicine treats the PERSON, not the symptoms and is therefore individualized.
Too lazy to get articles but feel free to research the herbs and MSM as they have a sh*t-ton. Cheers.
October 16, 2009 - 8:34amThis Comment
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