This comparison between Alternative and Conventional medicine is loaded with quality sound-bites.  Read this.

4. Because alternative medicines stress change, doctors work on guiding people towards their health “destination”. Doctor-patient relationships are like a brotherhood. Conventional medicine, however, is something indoctrinated by research, mostly backed by drug companies. Therefore conventional doctors are commanders on the war against diseases. A conventional doctor acts like God in a white gown. He is the one who determines life or death for patients.

5. Because we are composed of body and mind, self-healing needs the adjustment of both, the mind is the master who controls the body. Therefore, alternative medicines consider that mind power plays the major role. It makes up more than 50% in the healing process. If we enhance the patient’s mind power, spontaneous healing may occur occasionally. Conventional medicines put a very low value on mind power. The highest role of the mind in conventional medicines is just a supportive factor in the area of psychiatry.

Alternative Medicine is the Medicine of Independence.

2. The principal idea of alternative medicines is self-healing. What an alternative doctor does is helping patients correct internal and external factors for self-healing. Conventional doctors, however, have never realised the power of self-healing and believe in human intervention. Therefore, drugs are the powerful weapons of conventional medicines.

3. Alternative medicines stress self-reliance. Therefore, along the way to healing, people should change their lifestyle and eating habits. It is the medicine of independence, whereas the conventional medicines are those of dependence. With conventional medicine, people rely totally on hospitals and drugs all their lives.

Thanks Dr. Banchob for these statements.  What a great description and comparison - Alternative medicine (and in this context Alternative medicine includes Complementary medicine known as CAM in the western world) is the medicine of independence.  Hey believers, write that down – Alternative medicine is the medicine of Independence. 

And then write this down – Conventional medicine is the medicine of Dependence.

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Whoa – did you read this correctly – nearly 1 in 3 American adults has high blood pressure?  We need to look into this further.  Let’s do some research on Reflexology and blood pressure numbers before and after a session. Read the rest of this entry »