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Victoria Posada
Alternative Medicine
Using a special diet to treat cancer instead of cancer drugs that are prescribed by an oncologist
Alternative medicine is used instead of standard medical treatment.
What is Alternative Medicine?
- Gentler than traditional medicine and typically doesn't cause side effects that damage your body.
What You Need to Know About Alternative Medicine
- Alternative therapies have been reported to cause serious problems or even deaths
Low power and controls, inconsistency of treatment or product, and lack of comparisons with other treatments
Cons
Whole body care. Alternative medicine is focused not just on your body, but also on your mind.
Pros
The concept of complementary and alternative medicine includes practices such as massage, acupuncture, tai chi, and drinking green tea.
Tai Chi
Acupuncture
Massage
Green Tea
-National Library of Medicine
Recent years have seen an increased interest in using complementary and alternative medicine to address the growing numbers of individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related disorders.
-Victoria Posada
Alternative Medicine could be a very controversial topic, you could have allergic contact dermatitis and more rarely IgE-mediated clinical symptoms.
Homeopathy is the oldest form of complementary and alternative medicine developed in Europe. Founded by Samuel Hahnemann, it was first practiced in Germany at the end of the 18th century.
There are two main theories in homeopathic medicine: "Like cures like" and the "Law of minimum dose." Homeopathic remedies are derived from substances that come from plants, minerals, or animals, often formulated as sugar pellets.