Alternative or complementary medicine are medical processes that do not belong on the traditional medicine concept, furthermore, it kind of medicine is focus in combining the body and mind besides use the natural resources for the treat of many diseases. It is many popular around the world, there are many countries that produce and use a lot of alternative medicine practices, currently, exist a lot of kind of CAM, two of the most recognized around the world are TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Naturopathy, despite, that each one of them have not the same source, it can help to combat the patient disease.
Traditional Chinese Medicine and naturopathy are not the same thing but have the similar objective, TCM practices was born five thousand year ago rooted to the ancient Chinese culture, otherwise, the naturopathy came from Germany culture early XX century, both of them elude the use of drugs on the treatment of patient illness, for instance, TCM practitioners are focus in the use medical herbs, exercises, massages and acupuncture, in the meantime, naturopathy use non-invasive products those support our body to heal by itself.
Primary, naturopathy notwithstanding to the fact that naturopathy is really extent, “all those practices is in base on that the body can heal by itself” (Sutton, 2010) besides have the capacity to keep the balance on physics and spiritual parts, it is basely that our body have a natural power then it can maintain the correct work of the different organs that there are in our body, nonetheless, if the man abused of this able it can react against us, for that reason we need to appeal to natural resources that it can increase it natural power and put in their normal work.
Similarly, in TCM the body is considered as an entity conformed by different parts that are interdependent, in this view, the disease and health maintain the balance of the body. Meanwhile TCM is based on some components that includes, first the belief that two forced that are complementary and opposing exist, called Yin-Yang , and second that a vital energy, qi, circulate through different parts of the body. In contrast, Naturopathy is based on the natural power of the body to cure by itself and center their treatment in all possible factors that cause the illness and teach
In conclusion, both of the CAM mention could be useful to treat different illness in a better way because they use natural products, like Naturopathy, or the vital energy and other body force, like in the TCM. Both center in the whole person and the treatment is personalized. Actually, many people use CAM as a way of replacing the drugs that offer the conventional medicine, while others just support the western medicine with this type of treatment.
References:
Dwight Franklin, (2017). ADD/ADHD: a Chinese Medicine Perspective. Recover from: https://mycipc.com/add-adhd-chinese-medicine/
Marc Ryan, (2018) A Brief history and overview of Traditinal Chinese Medicine. retrived from: https://rebelhealthtribe.com/traditional-chinese-medicine/
References:
Dwight Franklin, (2017). ADD/ADHD: a Chinese Medicine Perspective. Recover from: https://mycipc.com/add-adhd-chinese-medicine/
The health First Group. Naturophaty in Mississagua, Ontario. Recover and retrived from: https://www.thehealthfirstgroup.com/treatments/naturopathy-mississauga/
Simply amazing. I mean, at first You introduced me in the information of those alternative medicine as: naturatophy and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and it was so interesting especially the way that how you explain it due to you explained us not only the advantages if not its disadvantages that it has besides I liked the way how you organized your ideas since first you present either TCM or Naturopathy and after their origins and effect that ir has in people depending the use of those alternative medicine.
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