Holistic means “whole”; so in terms of health care, what it means is “looking at the whole body”, the whole person when it comes to treating them.Modern medecine treats patient as a series of part that are isolated ; it looks at the part which isn’t working and tries to remove the symptoms until everything is working well again – just like a mecanician would do with a car !!!The opposite of holistic is symptomatic. Too often, modern medecine treats the symptoms and not the cause of the illness. Drugs and surgery can remove about all symptoms but the problem is that , even if the people are happy not to suffer anymore, the cause remains. If we have a backache, pain killers will take away the pain, but there’s still something wrong somewhere that caused the backage in the first place.The holistic approach, is so different. It takes into accound not only the symptoms, but also the age, habits, emotions and life-style of the individual, and tries to built an overall picture.Being healthy means there is a balance or harmony between our mind and our body. When we are ill , it’s because there is an imbalance somewhere, and this is shown by symptoms.What holistic medecine tries to do above all is to prevent illness, and we all know that prevention is better than cure. A good dies with lots of fresh food, not processed food with preservatives and chemicals, is essential. But also a healthy life-style, without too much pressure and worry, and lots of exercice and rest... these are things that will prevent illness.It can cure all sort of illnesses as arthritis, headaches, insomnia, ashma, high blood pressure, caughs...So it’s not about rejecting modern medecine, as it has an important place, particularly in accidents and emergencies. What would be nice to see is Western and holistic medecines working hand in hand. ( somtimes they do as my family doctor and my acupuncteur)Nowodays holistic medecine is becoming more and more popular ! Why is that ?Maybe just because modern medecine doctors don’t take time to listen to us anymore and they are almost writing the prescription as we are walking in the room before we have even begun to tell them why we are there for.Maybe also because we are becoming more health conscious generally, and aware that we are basically responsible for our own health.
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Dear Forget-me -Not,
Thank you for this useful post.I see you are wondering about our health in a proper way.I don't like to take medicine,because the most of them contains chemicals which are destroying our body and mind.We should be in harmony with nature and nature will help us to keep or recover our body and mind.
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Thank you for this useful post.I see you are wondering about our health in a proper way.I don't like to take medicine,because the most of them contains chemicals which are destroying our body and mind.We should be in harmony with nature and nature will help us to keep or recover our body and mind.