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Alternative medicine has primarily existed before conventional medicine and dates back to thousands of years ago, and is basically the primitive medicine of long ago. Alternative medicine consists of a variety of practices, like Acupuncture, Naturopathy, Herbal therapy, Hydrotherapy, Homeopathy and many others. Each practice uses different ways to treat the illness but all of them focus on stimulating the immune system in order to fight the disease. Herbal medicines are extracted from plant materials like leaves, stems, roots, and so on, which all have certain biological active ingredients. Homeopathy treats illness by using remedies derived from plants and minerals. There are several types of prescriptions in homeopathy; classical homeopathy where the practitioners use only a single medicine to treat the illness and complex homeopathy where combinations of medicines are used (Vickers and Zollman). Homeopathy is derived form the Greek word Homoios which means "similar sufferin!g". It was founded by the German doctor Samuel Hahneman in the 18th century (Beaumont). It is a system of treating based on the consept 'likes cures like' which means that if a natural substance causes a certain symptom , then this same subst
homeopaths were able to treat their patients since they did not care about the name of the disease and they only cared about the symptoms found in patients and thereby did not waste much time in finding treatment (Moss). On the other hand the medical doctors could not find a specific treatment that had any effect and only aspirins were used for treating the high fevers (Moss). This of course can show clearly that in the case of flu Homeopathic remedies work better than the conventional medicines. Concerning a chronic disease such as cancer, it has symptoms that include weakness and loss of appetite and weight. It can be caused by several factors such as cigarette smoking, being exposed to ionized radiation, and many other factors. It is usually treated by surgery to remove the tumor, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. It is known that all these treatments have severe side effects whether physically or mentally. Homeopathy deals with chronic illnesses such as cancer in a different! Homeopathy is based on the holistic approch, which means that it stimulate the body's natural reaction and strengthen the immune system to help it to fight the diseases. According to Dr.Dana Ullman, the holistic view look at the symtoms as an interaction between the person and the external enviroment (Ullman). The symtom is an alert that there is something wrong in the body. It suggest the way which the body is trying to repair itself. Therefore, people should not rush the symptoms by taking any convential medicine but they must give time for natural healing. Homeopathy also sees symptoms as the body's natural reaction to fight the illness so it seeks to stimulate the reactions rather than fight them. Dr.Ralph Moss added that homeopathy is good in that it only uses minimal doses to treat the illness and not like conventional medicine, which uses sometimes very high doses to treat the symptoms. The difference between conventional medicine and homeopathy is that conventional med! ways. It does not necessarily have the treatment for the disease but it can often help patients by limiting their pain (Moss). For example there are homeopathic remedies for hearing bad news that can help reduce the bad effects of it (Moss). Homeopathy does not treat the disease (or names of diseases) but patients with a disease. In other words we don't treat cance
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