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Five: Alternative Medicine
Choosing alternative medicine and natural health is a conscious choice you will have to make. You may have come to the point in your life where you are experiencing minor health problems and are seeking alternative methods to conventional health practices that often don’t work. Or perhaps you feel healthy, and want to maintain this health, by looking at ways that you can supplement your current diet and lifestyle with natural choices. No matter why you are thinking about incorporating alternative medicine into your life that important point is that you have arrived here and are ready to make significant changes to what you eat, the way you think, the way you feel, and the way that you live your life.
Types of Alternative Medicine
There are many different types of alternative medicine that each offers their own philosophy and discipline. You will have to decide for yourself where your interests lie as well as what form of alternative medicine is best able to help you heal any particular health problems that you have. The following types of alternative medicine are presented in no particular order:
- Herbal medicine. This type of alternative medicine uses certain properties of herbs and other plants as a means to promote health and to heal specific health problems. The parts of the plant that are used can include the leaves, flowers, stems, or a combination of all. Specific herbs are known to deal with certain health problems or to enhance certain qualities, such as valerian, which is used to calm the central nervous system.
- Chinese herbal medicine. This ancient form of traditional Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years. One of the focuses of Chinese herbal medicine is to prevent disease before it has a chance to manifest itself, as well as treating existing health problems. Chinese herbal medicine uses herbs and a combination of herbs to heal the body.
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