What is the role of complementary and alternative medicine in the treatment of cancer?
As cancer is a multidimensional and multifaceted disease, a holistic approach to treatment is important. Complementary health can offer an enormous supportive and supplementary role to cancer patients and their medical treatments. I offer my patients a package of holistic and complementary health therapies that includes: • Therapeutic aromatherapy • Therapeutic massage therapy • Dr Vodders lymph drainage and therapeutic reflexology, along with psychoneuroendoimmunology (PNI) and stress relief • Emotional release • Cranio-sacral balancing • Electromagnetic vibrational energy healing • Healing touch • Colour therapy • Crystal therapy • Visualisation • Meditation • Prayer • Pranic breathing Each therapy has its own, but also a contributory, role in helping the patient to obtain optimal quality of life, health and wellbeing. The definition of health isn’t merely an absence of disease. It’s about being holistically and harmoniously balanced on all levels physically, emotionally, mentally an