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Alternative Medicine: Increasingly Less Alternative
Posted by Marisa Belger on February 9, 2006 - 7:08am.
Americans like their complementary and alternative medicine. While there are still those that think anything outside of mainstream healthcare is pure quackery, a rapidly growing segment of the population is more than willing to put its money and its health in the hands of acupuncturists, herbalists, aromatherapists, energy healers, and massage therapists (not to mention reflexologists, yoga therapists, chiropractors, cranial sacral therapists, and others).
According to a recent article in the New York Times (stories in mainstream media are additional proof that alternative medicine is attractive to more than the new age sect), Americans spend $27 billion a year on alternative and complementary medicine. This spending can be a small as the purchase of an echinacea cold remedy to the alternative cancer treatment that Coretta Scott King pursued.
This shift to alternative medicine is motivated by a profound disappointment in conventional medicine, hence the article’s title, When Trust in Doctors Erodes, Other Treatments Fill the Void. “Haggles with insurance providers; conflicting findings from medical studies; and news reports of drugmakers’ covering up product side effects all feed their disaffection, to the point where many people begin to question not only the health care system but also the science behind it,” writes reporter Benedict Carey.
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with faulty studies, condemnation, etc. some people are bright enough to know: if it works – do it. And they are. They know that for many problems alternative medicine works with far fewer side effects. And this is all in spite of an organized attempt at stopping alternative meds!
http://www.bolenreport.net/
I’ve been able to avoid antibiotics all my life, because we always did teas, herbal decoctions, and zinc lozenges, when it came to sinus infections, colds and influenza, when I was growing up. I’m also of the mindset that we could help ourselves immensely if we’d look at food as medicine as well as sustenance, rather than something we cram in while we’re rushing off to do something else.
one of the best books I’ve read is ‘Eat to Live’ by www.drfuhrman.com I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Joel Fuhrman and my brother interned/shadowed him.
If you order that or Disease Proof Your Child – tell them Bob Mantz sent you in the comments section and you might get an autographed version!