You can make your own decisions when its comes to your body. Alternative medicines can often be misleading but relief and even a remedy for a cure is very possible.
Discussions with your doctor should include conventional therapy but don't give up asking about alternate methods.
Most Alternate Medicines are made from plants anyway and used in conjunction with modern practice. And yes, we have to know what is regarded as Snake-Oil. READ THE LABEL and always confer with your medical practitioner.
Treatments for diseases were originally derived from natural substances going back many centuries. The most recent for instance; the chemotherapy drug Taxol is created from a compound found in yew leaves, Aspirin from willow tree bark, Digoxin from the flower - Digitalis Lanata and Morphine from the opium flower.
70% of all new drugs introduced in the United States in the past 25 years
have been derived from natures plants and flowers. (Reports from a study published in the March 23 issue of the Journal of Natural Products).
40% of American adults participate in some form alternate therapy.
• massage • acupuncture • tai chi • drinking green tea • alternate medicines
