Health Blog April Archive

Traditional Medicine For Cancer and AIDS

By Dr. Boolittle at 04/22/08 02:26

In the ancient civilizations, diseases are treated as if they were brought about by bad forces of the nature. It may also be a punishment sent by their high goddesses. Hundreds of years passed and men invented technology.

This technology that much of us now are enjoying is actually the reason for illness that humans have acquired. In turn, using technology again, men tried to fight and discover healing products, procedures that will heal those brought about by the modern changes. Unfortunately, even the highest nowadays can't still find solution for certain cases.

AIDS and cancer are only a few of the diseases that until now needs cure. We have combated these diseases for years but none has yet to find the solution. However, there are beliefs that claims they have found the solution to these problems, they are the users of the old ways from our ancient ancestors.

Some uses chants, rituals and some uses plants. It is an undeniable fact that some plants are proven sources of medicinal value, though many are not supported by our modern scientific medicine.

The periwinkle plant, for example, is the source of what we call vinca alkaloids that are proven effective against malignant lymphomas. The taxanes that are used for prostate and breast cancer treatment actually came from yew trees. Even the modern anti-cancer drugs Topotecan and Irinotecan are are derived from the Chinese Happy tree. Research on certain grasses on the African deserts are also being conducted because one anti-gen molecules for AIDS is found on that particular grass, and I pray that all those researches will result to something good.

Nowadays, the chances we have to come up with the cure for these disease must not be spoiled. Every second counts, because every second, we lose lives all around the world because of these deadly diseases.

Let us give hope to those person and let them feel that life was given for us to enjoy, not to suffer from it.

An Introduction to Homeopathy

Homeopathy is one of the most known form of alternative medicine . Though it had been labeled by Medical professionals as a quackery and considered to be a pseudoscience, many people still trust this form of medicine.

The practice of homeopathy is completely the reverse form of scientific medicine. It is considered to yield placebo effect to patients or the therapeutic effects of some sort of faith healing or inert medicines. But these results are not supported by scientific claims and clinical studies making it fall under quackery.

Countries such as United Kingdom and USA are noted to have a number of homeopaths while in India, it is already considered to be part of their medical culture and traditional practices.

There are no known case of bad homeopathic incidents and the procedures and medicines used in practice are generally safe. However, criticisms are high on the part that homeopaths believes that avoiding conventional medicines such as vaccinations, taking of anti-malarial drugs and antibiotics will keep them from acquiring illnesses and will eventually prolong their life.

Homeopathy regards diseases and sickness to be caused by disturbances in a hypothetical vital force or life force in humans and that these disturbances manifest themselves as unique symptoms. Homeopathy contends that the vital force has the ability to react and adapt to internal and external causes, which homeopaths refer to as the "law of susceptibility". The law of susceptibility states that a negative state of mind can attract hypothetical disease entities called "miasms" to invade the body and produce symptoms of diseases. However, Hahnemann, the person who first introduced Homeopathy in the 18th century, rejected the notion of a disease as a separate thing or invading entity and insisted that it was always part of the "living whole"