It's Cheaper
As the cost of medical treatment continue to rise year after year alternative medicine serves as another way of healing. Certain therapies not only are cheaper, it could also be effective. For example chiropractic. In Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutic ( 1993), a 2 years study involving 395,641 patients with neuromusculosketal condition revealed that patients receiving chiropractic care incurred significantly lower treatment cost than the one treated solely by medical or osteopathic care.

It's More Personal
We are tired of doctors who listen to our problem for 5 minutes and prescribe us with numerous pills without telling us what we did wrong in the first place.

Alternative medicine normally aim to establish health rather than finding disease. So, it is normal for a patient to be asked numerous questions that may seem odd. For example, a homeopathic practitioner may ask you questions like: What position do you sleep in?

The questioning sessions are also longer and numerous tests will be conducted. For acupuncture, it is normal for the practitioner to check your pulse, tongue, your breathing pattern and eyes.

People have started to look into alternative medicine because the practitioners are more personal and seem to care. Most of the time, alternative medicine practitioners are able to dedicate more time to a particular patient than conventional doctors.

It's Healing Approach
Alternative medicine emphasis in preventive measure. At the same time, it also believes in using the body's own healing power to treat our illness. Naturopathy for example, put a lot of stress on proper diet which consists of natural fruits and vegetables and against the consumption of dairy products.

Rather than tell you about your illness, naturopathy will tell you about how to establish health. In short, a naturopathy practitioner will help you change your diet rather than suppress your medical problem using pills.

Hope
Alternative medicine is synonymous with hope. For a lot of people who found no cure with conventional medicine, alternative therapies are like twinkling stars. Patients suffering from so-called uncured disease like Aids or life threatening one like cancer have turned to alternative medicine when their doctors said that their disease is incurable. It is estimated that more than 80 % of cancer patients use alternative medicine alongside conventional therapy.

Norman Cousins, for example, practically laugh all his way to healing. He was told that he has little chance, if any of surviving from his disease. Hearing this, Cousins decided to took matter into his own hand and started to plan his own recovery plan, including laughter and affirmative emotion like love, faith and hope. He also took a great deal of vitamin C, which he read would be beneficial for his condition.

Despite his doctor’s grim pronouncements that he would never survive, he turned his back on heavy medication and went to cure himself of his disease.

His remarkable recovery can be read in a book entitled Anatomy of an Illness

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