Archive for June, 2007

How Should Alternative Medicine Be Defined

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

There is still no strict definition on what alternative medicine really is. But presently, it borders on the broadness of description covered by what we know of as conventional or orthodox medicine. However, to define alternative medicine as we believe it to be, it may be a knowledge that is considered as unaccepted, untested and […]

Alternative Medicine For Back Pain: Science or Quackery

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Alternative medicine is an approach more and more sufferers are using to treat back pain. Why this should be the case is probably due to the ineffectiveness of many of the more conventional methods. No one can deny that modern medicine can achieve what would have been viewed as miracles only twenty years ago with […]

Alternative Medicines That Work For Me

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

There is a lot of hype about alternative medicines, and some of them are certainly without much value. Of course there is a lot of hype about regular medicines, many of which do as much harm as good. The fact that natural remedies and treatments rarely hurt people as much as prescription drugs is one […]

Prescription Vs Alternative Medicine for Vitiligo

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

You will hardly find a person who has used a prescription medicine for Vitiligo and is very happy about it, but even if it were successful and gratifying, that does not mean that there can not be other types of remedies which can be effective as well. There are a large number of people […]

Alternative Medicine - New Way to Lose Weight

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Weight loss is one of the big topics-no pun intended-on the late night television circuit. While flipping through the channels after 11p.m., you are likely to come across several advertisements for weight loss pills and diet supplements, each promising to assist you drop those unwanted pounds and remove stubborn belly fat once and for all.
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Alternative Medicine Arthritis

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Are you looking for some inside information on medicine arthritis? Here’s an up-to-date report from medicine arthritis experts who should know.
Alternative medicine is the preferred choice of more than 90% of arthritis sufferers in the United States. Studies have shown that patients with arthritis and other rheumatic disorders tend to resort to alternative medicine […]

Alternative Medicine - What Happens During Acupuncture Treatment

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Acupuncture is one of several popular alternative therapies tracing its roots to traditional medicine in China more than 5,000 years ago. Although the treatment is regarded as one of the most common and oldest worldwide, acupuncture only started to become recognized in the US after New York Times journalist James Reston wrote a feature on […]

Using a Health Savings Account to Pay for Alternative Medicine

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Americans spend over $30 billion each year on complementary and alternative therapies, mostly out of their own pocket.?That is because few health insurance plans cover expenses like homeopathy, acupuncture, or Chinese medicine.?But if you own a Health Savings Account, these expenses are 100% tax deductible.
Health Savings Accounts allow you to set up a tax-deductible […]

Alternative And Complementary Medicine: Old Medicine, New Synergies

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

The terms alternative medicine and complementary medicine are often wrongly used as synonyms. Actually, the term alternative medicine refers to medicine systems like Ayurveda or Acupuncture that are used in place of conventional medicine, while complementary medicine refers to those therapies like massage that are used in conjunction with conventional medicine.
However, both end up performing […]

Exploring Different Forms Of Alternative Arthritis Medicine

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Arthritis as we know it today is a large group of conditions where damage is inflicted on the joints of the body, resulting in swollen, throbbing pain. It is a disease that afflicts all ages, but is predominately present in people over the age of sixty-five. The most common form of arthritis is the degenerative […]