What Is Alternative Health?
These are health-care options which are generally not recognized by the American Medical Association.
These rely less on scientific research and more on principles of wellness and disease prevention.
Many of these are very old and time-tested. These slides will give you an overview of alternative health and how it compares with conventional mainstream medicine.
Click the START/STOP Button below and the L/R Buttons on either side to view and control the presentation.Let's First Define "Alternative:"
al·ter·na·tive (noun:)
1. A choice:
a. The choice between two possibilities.
b. A situation presenting such a choice.
2. One of a number of things to be chosen.
al·ter·na·tive (adjective:)
1. Allowing a choice between one or more things.
2.Non-traditional, conventional or mainstream:
a. Something not traditional: an alternative lifestyle.
b. Values different from mainstream: an alternative newspaper.What Is Conventional Medicine?
Known by this, and other terms, conventional medicine is any medical preparation, therapy and/or procedure which have been authorized by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA.)
This includes our major hospitals, medical centers and the pharmaceutical industry. These entites must meet top-level criteria as defined by the AMA and the FDA.
This medical empire is also commonly called, "mainstream medicine," and simply, "modern medicine."How Does the AMA Rate Foreign Medicine?
The AMA subjects foreign health systems to rigorous scientific evaluation to determine what is "safe" for consumers (and profits.) Its research teams test for...
1. effectiveness and safety.
2. utilization (or usefulness.)
3. ineffectiveness or danger.
4. subjectivity to experimentation.
5. philosophical (or scientific) differences.
6. profitability.
AMA rejecting a medicine may be due to lack of testing.Let's Look at Alternative Medicine...
The term, "alternative" medicine is only fitting to the AMA and FDA. This is anything that has no place in conventional medicine, and has failed the test...or not conclusive.
Entire medical systems which have been around for millenniums, let alone centuries, fall in these categories.
Ayurveda (medical system of India) and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are two examples, both having roots in prehistoric times. Their lack of scientific support are the main cause. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as we shall see...What Is Complimentary Medicine?
Foreign medical systems and modalities (therapies, procedures and preparations) medical science finds safe, effective and useful go in this category.
Having been thoroughly tested through repeated experimentation, the AMA and FDA authorizes medical doctors and other professionals, within mainstream medicine, to refer their patients to practitioners of the studied medicine.
Hypnotherapy is an example of this. Chiropractic, which remains an alternative medicine, is not.Holistic Health? What's This?
The word, holistic is borrowed from the Greek. It means, "whole; together; complete, using all parts."
"It also refers to all the parts belonging to a thing present and accounted for.
Our term, "whole" and the Greek, holos appear to be unrelated but mean the same." An easy way to remember this term is to add a "w" in front, i.e., "w-holistic."
"Holistic health" refers to health-care which treats the whole being, not just the physical part.What's in Holistic Health Philosophy?
There are five basic components that make up the general philosophy upheld by many health systems outside conventional medicine:
1. Focuses on the whole being: body, mind, soul & social.
2. Focuses on disease and illness prevention.
3. Treatments are highly individualized.
4. Focuses on causes of ailments, not symptoms.
5. Supports the natural healing processes of the body.
Not all alternative/complimentary medicines are holistic, but most of them are.Question, Statement or Title Goes Here
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Alternative health refers to alternative medicine. Technically speaking, alternative health, or alternative medicine is any of the energy medicines and spiritual aids that conventional medical systems, especially in the West and Europe, do not consider valid or useful to modern medicine.
Loosely speaking, alternative health also refers to some techniques, as hypnotherapy, which mainstream medicine does consider complementary or supplementary, therefore valid and useful. These are, for the most part, scientifically proven methods and hypnotherapy (clinical hypnosis) certainly falls in this category.
Alternative Health Solutions MD Inc. utilizes both alternative health and complementary health systems.
The healing systems and therapies represented by alternative and health medicine offer what conventional medicine does not in the following five ways:
- Focuses on the whole person, physical; emotional; spiritual; social.
- Focuses on disease and illness prevention.
- Treatments are highly individualized.
- Focuses on causes of ailments, not symptoms.
- Supports the natural healing processes of the body.
Alternative Health Solutions MD Welcomes You!
At Alternative Health Solutions MD, our goal is to help you find the right remedies for your health issues. We provide a variety of alternative, yet highly effective methods to reach this goal. Alternative health treatment, otherwise known as “alternative medicine” and “complimentary medicine” often sports health restoration reportedly producing results superior to conventional medical remedies.
Welcoming You to Our Tampa Office!
Whether you are a resident of Tampa Bay or are in the area visiting, we encourage you to come by and see Dr. John Benitez in the office for your alternative health needs. We not only specialize in hypnotherapy and MTT/EFT, but are working towards certification for other Energy Therapies as well.
We also welcome you to our Website! For our on-line friends we aim to provide a huge repository of information and resources to help you become more aware of the different medical systems, therapies and modalities, many of which have been in use for milleniums.