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POPSIntegrative Medicine Complementary medicine describes practices used in conjunction and cooperation with conventional medicine. While integrative medicine is viewed as the best of complementary medicine by its advocates.
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POPSNatural Remedies Naturopathic medicine (also known as naturopathy or natural medicine) is a complementary and alternative medicine which emphasizes the body's innate ability to heal and maintain itself. Naturopathic practice includes many different modalities and practitioners emphasize a holistic approach to patient care.
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POPSHerbal Medicine Herbal Medicine is the use of any plant part - leaf, seed, stem, flowers, root, bark - for the relief of certain complaints, conditions, or ailments. Modern herbalism utilises plant medicine only but often combines the philosophies of the west with those of the east.
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POPSWhat’s Your Opinion of Natural Alternative Therapies? What’s Your Opinion of Natural Alternative Therapies? Alternative health therapies involve practicing various relaxation methods such as yoga, reiki, meditation, acupuncture, hypnosis, music, art, diet and supplements and many many others.
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POPSComplementary and Alternative medicine Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is an umbrella term for alternative medicine, complementary medicine, and integrative medicine. Alternative medicine describes practices used in place of conventional medical treatments.
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POPSAlternative Medicine Alternative medicine describes practices used in place of conventional medical treatments. Complementary medicine describes practices used in conjunction and cooperation with conventional medicine.
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POPSAncient Antibiotics Making a Comeback Healing with honey. Awesome. I was just reading about the healing properties of honey when you have a cold- that medical scientists are discovering that it is more than just a throat-soother when you have a cold and cough... it may actually help you get better faster.
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POPSGood books on holistic & naturopathic cat health When you're looking for nonfiction reference books, it's useful to have a test question or concept to look for. Basically, "if it includes x , it's probably got decent information; if it includes y , it's no good." (For dictionaries, I like the word "chthonic".) One such test for cat care books for me is the question of vaccinations. If a book says "revaccinate annually" and doesn't even mention that there are questions about whether that's safe, much less necessary, it's giving dangerous and outdated advice.
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POPSAlternative Medicine Guides by Prince of Wales Since the stuff HRH promotes has been round for hundreds of years, surely if it works it is no longer 'alternative'? Isn't it rather the case that these wonderful traditonal (usually organic, natural and holistic) therapies are challenged by the alternatives of modern mumbo jumbo stuff based on mere science, and other near supernatural belief systems?
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POPS Books On Alternative Medicine ABC News has an article today on "The Mystery Behind Alternative Cancer Treatment" .... a discussion on how cancer patients from Actress Farrah Fawcett and the late Coretta Scott King are now among the thousands of people who have turned to alternative approaches to cancer treatment when conventional medicine has failed. At the same time while browsing through an Indian book site (hat tip to analog and other stuff) I came across a section that he has dedicated to books on alternative medicine. Without hesitation, here is the list:
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POPSDouble Standard for Quackery It appears to be an unfortunate human characteristic that we are motivated more by irrational emotions or extremism than by calm intellectualism. In the context of CAM, I see a very activist and vocal minority have influence far greater than their numbers or the value of their ideas merit. Meanwhile the “scientific majority” are largely standing on the sidelines, either not perceiving the threat, or not wanting to risk political incorrectness in order to defend science from nonsense. Or, most often, they see is as just not worth their time and effort. The result, I fear, will be a permanent culture change within medicine. I do not think that scientific medicine will ever go away – it is just too valuable and effective. Rather our healthcare system will be increasingly burdened by a resource-sapping parasite of CAM, draining away healthcare and research dollars while confusing the public and distracting them away from the most effective treatments.
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