What Are Alternative Healing Therapies?
Alternative types of medicine have a bad reputation with many doctors, who see holistic healing practitioners as quacks who play on the emotions of vulnerable people or, at best, they regard alternative health therapies as producing nothing more than placebo effects. But this is a false picture. There are many documented cases of alternative therapies working, sometimes miraculously, where mainstream medicine has failed. Natural healing primarily focuses on prevention rather than cure, and also adheres to the philosophy that physical problems often have an emotional root cause. This approach differs from mainstream medicine, where it’s usually only the symptoms which are treated. But, if the mind body spirit balance has been severely disrupted, pharmaceuticals may have little or no effect. There can also be a chasing-the-tail scenario where drugs produce side effects which then have to be treated with more drugs while the underlying problem is unresolved. This is why alternative types
