Alternative Medicine and the skeptics
Alternative Medicine Alternative Medicine is the practice of natural remedies, joined together to create a state of optimum health. Alternative medicines focus on the body as a whole, mind, body and spirit. The thoughts are that the body and the body's emotional state create a state of illness or health. Many people are skeptical of alternative therapies. However, Alternative Medicine has been practiced for centuries. NIH and the NCCAM suggest 4000 years, that alternative medicine has been used for several aliments. Including everything from upset stomach to Cancer. Alternative Medicine is the traditional medicine. What we look at today as traditional medicine has only been in existence for a little more than 100 years. Alternative therapies were widely used by our ancestors. Modern Medicine Modern Medicine is the field of applied science related to the art of healing by diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety of health care pract...