What is Holistic Health/medicine? Could it change peoples lives?

Answer 1

Holistic health is a medical philosophy of well-being that considers the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life as closely interconnected and balanced. Advocates of the holistic health philosophy typically seek or use a wide variety of alternative practices, the most common of which include acupuncture, ayurveda, Siddha, chiropractic, naturopathy, yoga, aromatherapy,homeopathy, massage, Tai Chi, Chinese herbology, Medical cannabis and medicinal herbs. One of the oldest but newest treatments in holistic medicine is used for tears in your knees, backs, shoulders and more called "Ultrasound Directed Prolotherapy".

Advocates of alternative medicine often employ the use of the holistic health philosophy to claim that conventional medicine does not address the needs of the patient as a whole. Supporters of conventional medical practices dispute that claim and point to certain trends within conventional medicine that could also be described as "holistic", such as wellness programs focusing on whole-body health programs of nutrition, exercise, and preventive care.

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Holistic Medicine
The term Holistic Medicine has become common among practitioners of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine to denote an approach to medicine and medical methodology that tries to treat the person as a whole. This approach assumes that disease is not made up of visible symptoms alone.

The empirical study of psychosomatic symptoms have confirmed that often non-infectious diseases do have a psychological component, and it needs to be solved before the person can be called well. Alternative medical systems have always emphasized this fact, and thus their stress on holistic (or wholistic) medical approach.

Effectiveness will depend on the condition or disease.

Answer 2

Holistic medicine aims to treat the whole person, not just symptoms. A good practitioner asks you about your diet, exercise, lifestyle, history of illness, and stress in your life.
Any treatment you get could very well involve changing how you do things.
Learning about reflexology and aromatherapy has meant I have been able to make a positive contribution to my children's health where conventional treatment for their different ailments left one of them facing deformity and the other years of pain and unemployment.
There are a lot of quacks out there, however, so I would be careful of accepting all claims made by practitioners at face value.

Answer 3

Holistic means the whole of your being, including mind, body and spirit. Anything can change people's lives. Eating better, and becomming a better person can't harm you.