lternative medicine was an unknown field for me until about six months ago, when I was suffering from an unbalanced physical and psychological situation and conventional medicine, tests and medications were just making everything worse.
In April 2011, I had a nervous attack and I lost my balance, part of my motor skills, consciousness, and my appetite. I urgently met my family doctor to fix the situation. However, instead of finding what was wrong with me, I was literally abandoned from receiving any further consultations, only because I did not believe my problem would be resolved by taking anti-depressant pills. Deeply confused, I left the clinic, purchased the pills and went off to a scheduled meeting in the evening of the same day. There, I met a lady who had refused to follow chemotherapy to cure her cancer and has recently attained her health through naturopathic medicine. A week later, my first visit to a naturopath assured me that I was seeking my health by following a wrong path!
During the past six months my friends and family have witnessed not only the healing of my disorders, but that I have also learned to live a healthier and a happier life. This is not magic. This is about the vision of this medicine that taught me to learn about my body and treat it as an individual system with individual categories of demands and characteristics. The consultations were not about getting a prescription for a single problem. They showed me 1) inherited and acquired tendencies of my body towards health and disease, 2) my current condition in general, 3) the state of every organ in particular, and 4) how I should adjust by daily diet and physical exercises to enhance the system efficiently.
Since then, I've shared my story with friends and family members and I am proud to see their satisfaction in discovering the roots of their problems and healing methods by following an adaptable personal diet and exercise. This encouraged me to share my story with a wider audience here at OpenFile.
Unfortunately, naturopathic medicine seems to be overlooked by health care policy-makers and media. Newspaper headlines on medicine and health issues rarely give information on this topic or any related fields. According to Andrea Sullivan, President, DC Association of Naturopathic Physicians, “Naturopathy offers the very kind of cost-effective, holistic, proactive treatment that the administration [of Health and Human Services Office] is looking for. It's the answer to most of their concerns. I and the nation's other naturopathic doctors are a large, underutilized population of practitioners with specialized training in preventing illness. We keep patients out of hospitals, and in the process we save lives – and millions of dollars.” (Sep. 2009, White House assembly) So, what is behind the scenes that prevents our community from using a treatment that:
1. Reduces the overall cost of health care;
2. Makes health care safer and more effective for patients; and
3. Gives patients more control over their own care?
Courtesy:OpenFile
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