Alternative Medicine and Natural Health – What Is Holistic Healing?

Alternative medicine is based on natural treatment practices without the use of surgery or drugs. Holistic healing is based on the analysis of a whole and its general characteristics. Holistic medicine relates the human mind to the human body and spirit. In other words, it takes into consideration all components of the reality we live in. At the same time, it relates external to internal factors that could influence the formation of a physical disease.

Therefore, alternative medicine is based on treatments that look for solutions while analyzing the whole, and not only its parts, the way that traditional medicine does. For example, there are doctors who specialize in the cure of specific diseases, concentrated in specific parts of the human body. This means that they don’t analyze many other factors that don’t belong to their specialty. Their medicine is also concentrated only in the organic and material reality.

A healing process based on holistic medicine can be the practice of a specific treatment for a specific disease. However, holistic medicine will pay attention to many other factors besides the organic ones. For example, it will relate psychological and behavioral factors to physical problems when trying to discover the causes of the formation of a physical disease. This is why alternative medicine can cure physical problems through psychotherapy. It can also cure these problems by using various natural elements. For example, there are many natural treatments based on herbs that can cure various diseases without the use of traditional medicine.

Natural healing is based on chemical combinations already formed by the nature of our planet. Traditional medicine is based on substances obtained through various chemical combinations found through experimentation. Many of these substances cause various damages to the human body and mind, instead of curing the physical diseases or mental illnesses that they are trying to eliminate.

Alternative medicine looks for natural ways to fight against physical diseases and mental illnesses while using a holistic method, which analyzes and relates everything that belongs to the human reality. This is how it discovers the roots of all health problems and their solutions.

There are many different methods for the practice of alternative medicine and holistic healing. The most effective one is the scientific method of dream interpretation discovered by the psychiatrist Carl Jung, and simplified by me. I continued his research in the unknown region of the human psyche and discovered the roots of the human absurdity. I also discovered the cure of all mental illnesses through our obedience to the wise guidance of the unconscious mind that produces our dreams.

While Jung was afraid to completely trust the unconscious mind, I found scientific proof of the divine origin of the unconscious mind. This was how my work created a bridge between science and religion.

Now we have explanations for all unexplained phenomena. The unconscious mind is a miraculous and powerful mind that eliminates the human ignorance with its wisdom.

All dreams contain precious messages that work like psychotherapy and medicine. Thus, by following dream therapy we discover the cure for all physical diseases, mental illnesses or mental disorders.

Natural Health Remedies – Is Holistic Medicine a Better Option?

In recent times there has been a lot of debate on the efficacy of natural medicines and the laws that should govern their sale and use. Some allopathic Doctors consider all medicine systems other than Allopathy to be a scam and their practioners to be quacks. However, other Dr’s take the extra step to educate themselves on natural alternatives and present these to their patients as complementary protocols. You and me as consumers are often left in a situation where we must take matters into our own hands and choose what is best for us. This often requires a considerable amount of research on our part as there arenumerous holistic medicine systems like Ayurveda, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Homeopathy, western herbology, bioenergetics and homotoxology, and only fewpeople are educated and trained in all of these systems. An allopath seldom knows about homeopathy and a homeopath seldom knows much about Ayurveda. Hence we are left in a place where we on our own must choose what is best for our bodies. To make matters worse, Allopathy is the only system of medicine that is FDA approved for conditions, and all other natural products within the United States always say something like:”These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.”

The question really becomes, Should one discount all Ayurvedic, Chinese, homeopathic, alternative, complementary and herbal medicine as scams or should one consider them as a first line of defense on the road to keeping healthy?

In my research I discovered the following interesting facts that are of major importance to all our health:

• Allopaths call natural medicines a scam as they are seldom approved by the FDA for treatment of a certain disease.
• Naturopaths, Homeopaths and Ayurvedic Doctors consider Allopathy to be a short sighted approach that only targets symptoms whilst ignoring root causes.
• Natural medicine proponents say that natural products cannot be patentedand sold for huge profits like pharmaceuticals exclusively by one firm. Hence no one ever pays for FDA approvals of natural products. One example I found interesting and relevant was the Valerian Root v/s Valium case. Valium is essentially a synthetic analogue of the same active ingredient that is contained in Valerian root. However no one bothered to study Valerian root as a remedy for anxiety or insomnia. Instead they created valium, patented it and got FDA approval. Valerian root the natural variant never made it to FDA trials as no one was willing to pay for a natural substance that cannot be patented and FDA approved for an ailment. If you go to an allopath he would prescribe valium and a naturopath would prescribe Valerian root. The latter may be a safer alternative but it hasn’t received nearly as much publicity or sales as Valium has. This lack of recognition is the reason why we must dig deeper to find ourselves the best alternative.
• Natural medicine systems like Ayurveda, TCM and Homeopathy have been around a lot longer than allopathy has and are supported by numerous detailed texts. Homeopathy is in fact grand fathered in by the American Medical Association and it is the only form of alternative medicine that can be called a medicine for a certain disease without clinical trials.
• Homeopathy though often criticized as unscientific, has a scientific basis. Recently material scientists have proven that water has memory and this memory is what carries the information from a homeopathic medicine into the patient
• Placebo’s generally work 40% of the time, however in some studies homeopathy and Ayurveda provided relief upto 80% of the time.

Looking for information on all health systems in one place I came upon a site called Biogetica.com. They combine all these complementary natural medicine systems to present integrated solutions to their customers. Biogetica has Dr’s from all these various holistic medicine systems available for chat so I found it to be a very useful resource in gathering information from various medical systems in one place. However when I googled Biogetica, I came upon some sites calling Biogetica a scam and other blogs stating that there solutions were amazing. Researching further I came to understand the following:

Biogetica has been pioneering in combining the knowledge of all traditional medicine systems with modern scientific technology, and aiming to address diseases at its root cause. Solutions mentioned by Biogetica are directly derived from natural medicine systems like Ayurveda, TCM and Homeopathy. As discussed earlier, medicines and therapies derived from these traditional natural systems cannot be patented in order to get it approved by FDA. Despite of this, the therapies mentioned at the Biogetica website claim to synthesize all medicine systems to simultaneously ease disease on physical, mental, emotional and energetic levels. They pronounce to not only help you with the ailment but also to have a nutritive and energetically balancing effect on your body. I don’t consider natural medicine systems a scam even though they are not FDA approved so I don’t consider Biogetica a scam. It also seems like Biogetica has a bunch clinical trials conducted on its products and in some cases they out performed allopathic prescription drugs!

After analyzing the Holistic as well as Allopathic approach of medicines, it’s more certain that Allopathy works against the symptoms of the ailments and tries to provide relief only to the particular symptoms generally through suppression. Whereas, traditional medicine systems and Holistic healing takes into account the root imbalances that bring about these ailments and work to correct them. This seems to be a wiser approach for chronic ailments. However symptom suppression is necessary in acute cases and one most not ignore prescription medicine and its efficacy in quickly controlling symptoms.

The conclusions of my unbiased research are as follows:

  • Prescription drugs are generally the best method for immediate relief and acute cases.
  • Herbal and Homeopathic medicines are great for chronic ailments as they address root causes and not just symptoms.
  • One must look for Dr’s who are open enough to consider both systems simultaneously.
  • Natural medicine that isn’t FDA approved is not a Scam. It is Patent Laws and dollars and sense that makes it unaffordable to seek FDA approval on natural products.
  • This paper represents personal views of the author and is not to be construed as medical advice to anyone. Please consult your Dr for medical advice.