Allopathic Medicine is a Dinosaur

Will Alternative Medicine Replace Conventional Medicine One Day?

by Lenox Smith

Allopathic medicine is slowly losing its stranglehold in the field of health care. As questions continue to rise about the effectiveness of conventional medicine, people have started to look for better and safer ways to cure illnesses.

Alternative medicine is fast becoming the gold standard in health care for those who are disenchanted with the results - or lack thereof - that conventional medicine has produced for them.

We are bombarded with television and magazine advertisements for medications that promise to cure, or at least control, almost every ailment known to mankind. If you watch any TV at all, you've seen the skillfully edited commercials that feature smiling, happy people who seem as if they don't have a care in the world because they were given a pharmaceutical drug for some sort of medical problem they were having.

The magazine ads are just as misleading to the public. Though each of these media outlets mentions the drug's side effects, it is done quickly and unobtrusively, almost as if it is an afterthought.

Alternative medicine has gained more popularity in part of these undesirable effects. One example is the effects of the popular hormone replacement therapy Premarin.

* Migraine headache

* Chest pain

* Confusion and memory problems

* Swelling of the lower extremities

Most women would probably prefer to have the hot flashes of menopause than to experience any of these reactions on a regular basis. But, you don't have to put up with either one when you use alternative medicine! A consultation with an herbalist would reveal that a combination of dong quai and black cohosh extract will safely control all symptoms related to the change of life.

Alternative medicine believes that achieving wellness involves treating the entire body. Traditional allopathic, or Western medicine, concentrates on analyzing and managing specific complaints and illnesses. Treatment of these complaints almost always includes the prescription of one or more drugs.

People have become rather leery of taking these medications without first doing a little research about what they are putting into their bodies. Many times, once they discover that the side effects are as bad or worse than the illness for which they were prescribed the drug in the first place, they seek a better, safer, and more natural approach to good health.

Nowadays, many allopathic doctors have begun to embrace certain alternative medicine remedies and treatments. This is a result of the power behind these age-old solutions to health care.

Herbs, acupuncture, yoga, massage therapy, and holistic living all contribute to good health in ways that the medical profession is just now beginning to realize. As the public and doctors alike accept the entry of alternative medicine, it will continue to influence mainstream medicine in years to come.

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