Traditional and alternative medicine. Methods of Alternative Medicine

From time immemorial, mankind is looking for ways to quickly cure diseases. And to date, there are three main groups of methods used: modern, traditional and non-traditional.

Zabolev, first turn to the classical doctors who prescribe the prescription and explain the scheme of treatment for a particular ailment.

But, along with medicines, they often resort to proven "grandmothers": they make chamomile, soar their feet or eat cranberries with honey.

And when all the methods are tried, they turn to healers and healers. With the belief that they can help where medicine is powerless.

Classical medicine. Advantages and disadvantages

Scientifically grounded (modern) medicine has undoubtedly achieved a lot: surgery, resuscitation, effective ways to combat mass epidemics and serious diseases. Inflammation of the lungs, complex fractures and appendicitis can hardly be successfully cured by folk medicine.

However, there is a minus for every plus. And it consists that official medicine in most cases cares of withdrawal of symptoms and pain. And the patient is happy with the fact that the head does not bother anymore, but the acute phase of the disease has passed.

A new magic pill is popular, but not good health, in which addressing to doctors will become unnecessary.

Non-traditional medicine, its principles

Official medicine has generally accepted standards. In all institutions that train future doctors, they adhere to them. Accordingly, everything that does not fall under the standards refers to non-traditional medicine.

She is looking for the root cause of health problems, disorders in the body that led to the disease. Moreover, unlike the classical principles that treat a person as a system of separate organs, the non-traditional approach takes it whole, takes into account the interrelationship of all organs.

ethnoscience

To folk (traditional) medicine are ancient, time-tested ways Treat diseases. It was to them for centuries that they were being treated for healing. In general, the treatment with herbs and medicinal plants is applied, from them infusions and decoctions are prepared.

In addition to healing medicines, prayers and conspiracies are used. Prayers are read to protect themselves from the evil spirit, and conspiracies come to us from paganism, their words are passed on from generation to generation.

Oriental folk medicine

Eastern traditions teach illnesses to prevent, preserve health and thereby prolong the life of a person. The philosophy is based on the unity not only of the spiritual and physical body, but also the merging with the surrounding world. It is in this harmony that the healers see the solution of problems.

Traditional and alternative medicine is often called an alternative medicine, it deals with Treatment of a person, and not specifically a disease.

Alternative medicine. Trust or not

Adherents of alternative medicine assure that it is safe and effective. Many people believe this. However, to abandon the classical methods of treatment is still not worth it. Joint application of the doctor's recommendations and the achievement of alternative medicine is possible. This should be done with caution, since the effectiveness of most methods is poorly understood, and clinical evidence is also lacking.

Any clinic of alternative medicine promises to get rid of all the ailments, but the patient has to seek help from such centers almost at his own risk and risk, as there is no regulatory regulation of this activity.

There are often cases of not only disappointment, but also harm to health, especially if you go to see a charlatan who recommends another miracle remedy or technique. The level of qualification of such doctors is difficult to determine. Often it is necessary to focus on the feedback of patients.

Where Undergo training

Now many centers offer to master palmistry, physiognomy, graphology, astrology - all this is unconventional medicine. Training in alternative technologies is conducted in specialized educational institutions or remotely. It is believed that mastering the methods and techniques of alternative medicine is much more difficult than the classical one, so whether it is worth trusting such questionable educational institutions or not is a personal matter for everyone. Unfortunately, the Institute of Alternative Medicine, after which the official diploma of the healer will be issued, is only fantastic.

Now in Russia, only acupuncture and manual practice have received official recognition. You can get an additional profession if you have a special medical education. For example, only neurologists can master acupuncture.

Folk remedies of the West and East

There are many directions of alternative practices. Every year their number grows. To somehow sort out this diversity, they tried to classify.

The first group includes such methods:

• Acupuncture - the impact on human organs through special points on the body. These include: Su-jok, hirudotherapy, reflexotherapy and many others;
• Ayurveda is Indian non-traditional medicine. It implies a complex treatment that affects the whole body and includes massage, aromatherapy and meditation. It is also necessary to adhere to a diet and use curative decoctions;
• Traditional medicine and various health improvement systems - Tibetan, Vedic, Chinese;
• Homeopathy - the use of ultra-small doses of drugs. A significant amount of these substances causes the disease;
• Naturopathy - the method is based on the revival in a person of the ability to self-heal and improve. Train The rules of a healthy lifestyle, in which the body itself will solve all problems.

Bioelectromagnetic methods of influence on the body

In ancient China, biologically active points were found. These points are also called acupuncture, a total of about 700 are described. By annoying them in a certain way, various ailments can be cured, as well as disease prevention.

The methods of alternative medicine, which belong to the second group, mean exposure to biologically active points by magnetic, electric fields and biofields. Moreover, both diagnostics and treatment are carried out.

This includes:

• Bioresonance therapy - stimulation of areas of the cerebral cortex, which are responsible for this or that organ with very small frequencies of electrical impulses;
• Electropunctural reflexotherapy - stimulation of acupuncture points on the skin surface by electrical impulses;
• Magnetopuncture - exposure to magnetic fields, variables or constants;
• Information-active preparations - water or health-improving preparations that carry the "right" information to the cells of the body. Multifunctional means and contraindications do not;
• Fields, stones, metals and plants.

Dietotherapy

Alternative medicine uses numerous diets. Therefore, the third method includes vegetarianism, macrobiotic, starvation, various ways of detoxifying the body, the use of food additives.

Also listed here are a variety of food systems: Bragg, Shelton, Dyukan, Semenova, Protasov.

Psychoenergy and body

The ability to manage the body and emotions is also an unconventional medicine. Treatment is carried out by means of influence on the senses and through physical movement. This - Chinese and respiratory gymnastics, music therapy, color therapy, aromatherapy, visualization technologies, religious healing, extrasensory.

The fourth group includes yoga and meditation. Techniques are popular and widely known around the world as Indian non-traditional medicine .

Hands as the main tool in treatment

The methods that are considered to be the fifth group are basically massage techniques. Traditional and alternative medicine has accumulated a wealth of experience over a centuries-old history. Moreover, it is these methods of treatment with the help of the doctor's hands that are recognized by the official medicine as sufficiently effective.

These include:

• Manual therapy - special techniques, produced by the doctor's hands, with the help of which the work of the locomotor apparatus of the patient is being adjusted;
• Massage - mechanical effect on the tissues: joints, muscles, skin to achieve therapeutic effect;
• Acupressure - finger stimulation of biologically active points;

Biologically active additives

The use of pharmacological tools also provides for alternative medicine. Treatment is carried out with the help of apitherapy, biological preparations based on animal or mineral origin.

The sixth group includes the following types of therapy :

• Oxygen, is carried out for cells of the body that experience hypoxia;
• Cell, using stem cells;
• Metabolic for the adjustment of metabolism;
• Antioxidant, that is, the prevention of oxidation within the body's cells.

In addition, there are methods of alternative medicine that can not be attributed to any group, for example, astrology, fengshui, psychopuncture.

Healing

Very often you can find ads for healers, psychics, magicians and sorcerers. The cause of the disease, they see in the presence of spoilage or committing bad deeds of a person in this or past lives.

There are certain categories or levels of healing:

• To the first level are healers and herbalists, they work only with the physical body of a person;
• The second level implies an appeal to the Higher Powers to help;
• The third is psychics who literally see the cause of problems;
• The fourth, the spiritual level, involves the impact on the root cause of misfortune.

So it or not, it's hard to check. In most cases, the result of visiting a magician depends on the degree of the patient's belief in him.

Diagnosis of the state of the body

Folk and alternative medicine in its arsenal has many tools and methods for both treatment and diagnosis.

Unlike official methods, an alternative study allows you to check in one session the general condition of the body and identify all present diseases and problems.

To the popular methods of diagnosis with trust are many. However, classical medicine does not recognize them and does not apply them.

If you turn to the center of alternative medicine, patients can be offered such methods:

• Kinesiology studies the movement of a person's muscles. It is believed that each organ is associated with a particular muscle, determining the degree of tonus in it, you can find the problem and get rid of it;
• Iridodiagnostics examines the state of the body by the iris of the eyes;
• Aurikulodiagnostika - a system that examines points on the auricle, associated with the organs and systems of the body;
• Thermopuncture diagnostics measures temperature and sensitivity to it in the zone of biologically active points;
• Pulse diagnostics measures the pulse and correlates its characteristics with the state of internal organs.

This is not a complete list of techniques that have available alternative medicine. However, it should be understood that there is no absolute certainty about their reliability. And if they turned to such a diagnosis, the results should be clarified with the means and methods of official medicine.