Natural versus Traditional medicine
Natural versus traditional medicines and healing
When you’re looking into medicines in order to improve your body or just simply feel better, sometimes it can be tough to choose the correct route to take. Increasingly, people move toward the more natural way to heal rather than prescription antibiotics. The body has a natural tendency to heal itself according to science via the concept of homeostasis. Homeostasis is the body’s constant attempts to maintain a stable environment, achieving equilibrium necessary for good health.
It works like this: Maintaining a state of homeostasis means your body is stable and you feel healthier. If homeostasis is disrupted, however, the body takes steps to restore itself, a phenomenon that can be seen when the body’s temperature becomes too high. The body takes natural steps to bring itself back to normal in the form of sweating, a process that is helped by drinking cold water or other cold beverage. If homeostasis cannot be restored adequately, the person’s health may suffer and the body may not be able to function correctly, which could eventually result in disease and illness.
Difference between Traditional Practitioners and Natural Therapist
When it comes to medical practitioners, they tend to think of illness as something that attacks the body. They believe the only way to stave off is to kill the attackers. This is accomplished by prescribing antibiotics or even through surgery. This can be effective and useful in many cases, but it has also resulted in a a multi billion-dollar ‘disease industry’, where costly medical intervention is preferred to preventing the problem in the first place. In other words, their thought process tends to be “Why cure something when you can make more money off of it?”
Natural therapists on the other hand, consider illness as a challenge that should be met by supporting the body to heal itself, rather than externally intervening to re-establish homeostasis. Basic treatment approaches usually include rest, use of exercise or diet, nutritional supplements, medicinal herbs, or preventative measures like detoxification. In this case, the focus is on maintaining and supporting health, rather than a disease-based approach, leading to ultimately curing — rather than putting a temporary bandage over — the disease.
