Natural Medicine

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). also called bio or natural medicine, as a group of differing health care systems, practices and products, which are a holistic answer to conventional medicine. The author points out that biomedicine or conventional medicine is a reductionist model, which focuses on individual parts with little or no attention to the connection among these parts. The paper relates several natural medical approaches for processes such as childbirth and death and for various diseases from pharyngitis to cancer.

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"A re-evaluation of the environment requires a re-evaluation of health care. The obsolete "one-ill-one-pill-one-bill" physicians' formula should be abandoned for a more realistic view. The study of disease must include and encompass the environment, the host and the culture. It should necessarily include a search for deeper solutions than merely a technological fix. It should recognize and apply the principles of diversity, accept human limitations, trust in nature's healing power and consider the ecosystem as a whole."

Sample of Sources Used:

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