Alternative Medicine

MAINSTREAM as a drug has a fairly consistent approach to the disease, the fact that Al-alternative medicine. The most popular alternative to medicine are the six principles of naturopathic medicine. Either way, these principles will be revised again and again in the second part of this text. The following principles are described by Dr. Catherine Downey and taken from his chapter on natural medicines.

1. The healing power of nature (naturae medicatix View)

The body has an inherent ability to create, maintain and restore health. The healing process is ordered and intelligent healing power of nature through the reaction of the life force. The physician has a role in facilitating this process and to strengthen, we undertook to identify and eliminate barriers to health and recovery and support for creating a healthy environment inside and outside. In short, give your body the right tools and retrieve.

2. Discuss (the whole person of the many factors of health and illness)

Health and disease are the conditions of the whole organism, so that a complex interplay of physical problems, mental, spiritual, emotional, genetic, environmental and social. The physician must consider the whole person by taking into account all these factors. The smooth functioning of all aspects of the person is essential to recovery and prevention of disease and requires a personalized and comprehensive approach to the diagnosis and treatment.

3. Do no harm (primum non nocere)

The disease is a deliberate process of the body. The process of healing includes the generation of symptoms which are actually the expression of life force, felt himself to heal. Therapeutic measures should be complementary and synergistic effects with the healing process. The actions of the doctor can for or against the actions of the agent naturae with these methods to become the symptoms without suppressing the underlying causes, viewed as dangerous and avoided or minimized. Therapeutic measures are applied to the internal command system of the body.

4. Identify and treat the cause (Tolle causam)

The disease does not occur without reason. The causes of the disease must be detected and removed before a person or fully recover from an illness treated. The symptoms are an expression of the attempt to heal the body, but are not the cause of the disease, therefore the natural medicine is quickly routed to the root causes of disease rather than symptoms. Cases can occur at various levels, including physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. The doctor needs to assess the causes at all levels, directed treatment causes, rather than the symptomatic expression.

5. Prevention (Prevention is the best “medicine”)

The ultimate goal of natural medicine is prevention. This is done through education and promotion of lifestyle habits achieved that create good health. The physician assesses risk factors and hereditary predisposition to disease and makes appropriate measures to prevent further damage and risks to the patient. The emphasis is on the health of the population as a fight against the disease. Because it is difficult to be in good health in a healthy world is the responsibility of doctors and patients to a healthier environment in which we live to create.

6. The doctor as teacher (docere)

In addition, working an accurate diagnosis and appropriate prescription, the doctor in order to create a delicate health, interpersonal relationships with patients. A cooperative doctor-patient relationship inherent therapeutic value. The fundamental role of the physician is to educate and encourage patients to take responsibility for health. The physician is a catalyst for change in health care, empower and motivate patients to take their own responsibility. And the patient, not the doctor, who ultimately creates or fails to heal. The physician should try to bring hope and understanding. Physicians should also have an obligation to personal development and spiritual, to be good teachers.