which of the two you think is better alternative or conventional medicine?

Answer 1

I haven't been to an allopathic doctor in 12 years. I accept full responsibility for my health (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual). If necessary (can't fix it myself), I visit a naturopath, homeopath, massage therapist, chiropractor, or acupuncturist. I couldn't even tell you the last time I took an aspirin. The last time I took a prescription drug was 12 years ago (antibiotic). For me, alternatives work where Western therapies failed.

Answer 2

I believe there is a place for both types of medicine. When a situation is acute and needs sudden intervention, when you need a specific diagnosis to know what your problem is allopathic medicine is valuable. When it comes to preventing illness or restoring health where an illness is concerned alternative medicines are better. All allopathic medical treatments (drugs, surgery) have side effects that are harmful to the body whether the patient feels those effects or not. However, the allopathic methods can be necessary to manage the emergency while using alternatives to eliminate the problem. I used to have life threatening allergies. I spent 7 years in constant pain and made regular trips the the emergency room to get IV steroids to stop my throat from swelling shut and soffocating me. The medicines, kept me alive and for that I am thankful but they did not cure the problem and my quality of life was terrible with side effects from the five different perscriptions I had to take every day. Wven while taking the medicines, I was in terrible pain from the allergies in addition to the side effects of the drugs. The doctors told me that this condition would never go away and that my best hope was to suffer in pain while taking one pill that made me sleepy all day and one that kept me up all night, one medicine that gave me parkinson's - like tremors and another that made my food taste bad for the rest of my life knowing that every few weeks, my body would still get overwhelmed and I would have to get an IV of a drug that made me angry and aggressive and sent me into menopause at the age of 33. Finally, I studied Reiki and started doing self healing every day and I found another Reiki practitioner where I went to receive treatment every week. Within just a few weeks, I began to feel better and my trips to the emergency room became less frequent. Then my skin cleared up and small problems that I had not been too concerned about cleared up. I started to sleep better. Slowly, I was able to decrease my medications. After about six months, I was off all medications and I have not needed the emergency room for about seven years. I still have allergies and sometimes I have to take one pill every once in a while. It was the alternative medicine that saved my life and has given me a better quality of life but the allopathic medicine kept me alive long enough for the Reiki to do its work.

Answer 3

Well, I've always thought that 'alternative' medicine (herbs, vitamins, etc) are for prevention.... and conventional medicine is to try to heal something that's already bad.

Example: I haven't had a cold in about 23 years (I live in the northeast and everyone is always sick in the winter) because I am an 'alternative' medicine person. I also won't do flu shots - because I believe that I keep my immunity high..... however - if I got sick - and got strep throat - I most likely would be on the antibiotics - so there is a place for both.

I think the biggest problem is that people don't want to take responsibility for their health problems. An 'alternative' medicine person typically, doesn't smoke, watches what they eat, eats little sugar, drinks moderately and is conscientious about their health. Most solely traditional medicine people - are ones who think the doctors will just give them a pill to fix it all. Example is diabetes (unless it's the childhood one)... which is basically self-inflicted... - because they actually have to change the way they eat - and they won't...... so..... they want doctors to make it all better.....

Answer 4

Both conventional and alternative medicine have a place in healing. Much of it depends on your illness.

Answer 5

One seeks to cure with natural means encouraging the body to heal itsself, the other seeks to make obscene amounts of money and push symptom masking drugs (more money) that cure nothing and have all kinds of nasty side affects (more drugs to reduce the side affects... more money). Since conventional medical doctors are responsible for more accidental deaths than all the registered handguns in the US, I think you might be able to figure out where I'm going on this one. I could go on and on citing example after example.

Answer 6

Alternative medicine for psycho-somatic and chronic conditions, conventional for all the rest and acute states. There's no time for meditation when your appendix is in the process of rupturing and no sense in medication if you are just unhappy with your life. IMHO, of course.

Answer 7

If the 2 didnt mistrust each other so much and they worked together (only some do), a combination of the 2 would most probably produce excellent results for many patients.

Answer 8

whats the alternative ? conventional ?

Answer 9

They work together well, if you are having one doctor refer to another. Your conditions can be better tracked this way.

Answer 10

They both can be benificial in certain cases.