– Alternative Therapies for Healing the Body

Alternative therapies for healing the body have been in common use the world over, since ages. People call them by different names including holistic medicine, complimentary therapy and traditional medicine.
Alternative therapies are now more widely in use than ever before. In the U. S the use of alternative therapies is increasing by the day. 40% of adults & 12 % of children have reported taking recourse to alternative medicine at some point.

Experts term Alternative Therapies as “health care approaches with a history of use or origins outside of mainstream medicine.

For better understanding we can divide these therapies into four main categories:

• Manipulative & body – based therapies
• Biologically – based therapies
• Energy therapies
• Mind-body therapies

In addition, there are a number of Systems of Care, most of which are essentially traditional in nature. Some of these systems of care are:

• Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
• Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine )
• Hypnotherapy
• Homeopathy
• Nephropathy

All Alternative therapies and Care systems believe in:

Bringing the body into the right balance because an out-of- balance body falls ill
Giving the body the right conditions for bringing itself into balance & healing itself
Treating the whole body & the person instead of the disease or it’s symptoms only
Allowing the healing process to take its time
Using natural products instead of the synthetic