Homeopathy

The Dangers of Alternative Medicine For as long as modern medicine has existed, people who do not trust in it have followed. Most have met someone of this sort, people who believe that doctors are dangerous and untrustworthy are everywhere. With the rise of social media, they try to convince the world that vaccines are dangerous and how we must use mystery herbs to cleanse our bodies of invisible toxins. This distrust in modern medicine puts oneself and others at risk in many ways. Of the…

Ty Bollinger begins his book The Truth about Cancer discussing Hippocrates, a physician widely recognized as the father of western medicine. Hippocrates’ medicine derived from the Pythagorean Theorem which is applied as four elements, water, earth, wind, and fire. I find it interesting that the methods and ideas that Hippocrates presented are still in use today. The most common influences seen today would be the words of diagnosis and symptoms, which have their origins in Hippocratic medicine.…

When the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker shut down her practice and headed to Washington, DC, where she found a city overrun with soldiers wounded during the Battle of Bull Run.[4] Walker believed that she had an obligation to act that inaction wasn't an option, Dante Alighieri wrote that “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” [5] She went straight to Secretary of War Simon Cameron…

Introduction. HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin. It is a hormone produced naturally by both sexes but more by women during their monthly cycle or during pregnancy. It is essential for keeping a growing fetus healthy. It can also be artificially created in the lab for commercial purposes. The U.S Food and Drug Administration approved it for many different medical uses. It is prescribed to women to treat infertility as it helps women 's eggs mature and get released. In the last few…

OBJECTIVE #1 – The different phases of migraine headache • The prodrome phase may be experienced several hours or days in advance and a warning sign can be represented by the migaineur’s “yellow light” (Health Central, 2016). • The aura phase appears about an hour before the headache occurs and is associated with changes in vision, difficulty focusing, numbness in extremities, difficulties speaking, complications interpreting words and muscle weakness (Health Monitor, 2014). • The attack phase…

cancer are the patients who are unwilling to undergo a certain treatment (chemotherapy, or radiation) because of the severe adverse effects. ther patient wishes to not lose their breast via surgery, and prefers other alternative treatment such as homeopathy and herbal treatment. My final example of bioethical issues are the tendency of some women using the genetic outcome when making a reproductive decision. When planning for treatment and caring for patients who is dealing with breast cancer,…

results back and revealed that she had third stage of lung cancer. At first she or her family couldn’t believe the news. She was in a denial stage and thought its only mild breathlessness. Mary decided to take alternative therapy like multivitamins, homeopathy and even acupuncture. All her attempts failed and her attitude changed to partial acceptance of her illness. Mary felt anger towards God, she asked “why me”? Sometimes she shows unnecessary anger towards her husband and health…

Hippocrates also believed in holistic medicine which has helped guide modern Europe and America into natural medicines such as homeopathy, naturopathy, and chiropractics. Hippocrates also developed the patient driven method of treatment. This method requires that you first observe the patient, you then make the diagnosis, treat the patient, and lastly observe the progress of the patient…

different subsets of CAM which include natural healing systems called whole medical systems, which include ancient medical systems such as Ayurvedic medicine from India and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as well as acupuncture, naturopathy, and homeopathy; dietary therapy, which includes supplements, herbal remedies, and nutritional therapy; biologic therapies, including detoxification dieting, aromatherapy, and essential oil use; and mind-body medicine, which seeks to treat a patient from…

ate the organs from freshly dead gladiators, as it was thought the spirit of the person would be transferred to the patient. Medieval physicians also prescribed body parts of dead people as medicines. One of the medical theories of the time was homeopathy—the idea that like cures like. A skull, dried and powdered, was used to treat headaches, apoplexy and epilepsy, for example. In later times, King Charles II of England created a tonic from powdered skull and alcohol known as the King’s Drops.…