This is an alternative system of medicine which treats ailments by insertion of needles at acupoints. It is a pleasant tingling sensation radiating along a specific direction. Needling produces subjective sensations like pain, numbness, soreness, heaviness and distension objective beneficial effects produced are:- Analgesia i.e. pain-relieving effects useful in variety of painful conditions. Sedation or…
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Alternative Medicine – A Remedy for Many Ailments.
There is a growing realization that, contrary to previously held beliefs, conventional medicine (the medicine that most people are familiar with: antibiotics, surgery, etc.) cannot solve all of our health problems. And that this system of medicine is giving as many problems as it is solving. There is a growing acceptance that health is…
Can alternative medicine and modern medicine co-exist?
Alternative medicine is still viewed with distrust or as an offshoot of the hippie culture by large sections of the west. It is deemed as unreliable, as quackery or even actually dangerous by some. Conversely many alternative therapists view modern medicine as being toxic and actually detrimental to health. Both extreme views, it would seem…
Natural Conflicts with Chemicals
Ayurveda says natural cures are mere supports to strengthen further your body’s own capabilities while allopathic remedies comprise ingredients that fight themselves to ward the symptoms off. This has proved to have got started two distinct followings if we leave out Homoeopathy and alternate healing theories aside. But all of them do agree on a…