Natural remedies extend beyond “dietary supplements” to modality such as yoga and acupuncture, and may be superior to drugs due to the increasing number of peer-reviewed studies.
Natural medicine is an amazing field, and scientific research continues to accumulate to support exciting stories and increasingly popular views on health. In fact, GreenMedInfo.health specializes in dredging from the 27 million-deep, seemingly marine database of the National Library of Medicine. This shows not only the value of natural substances in the prevention and treatment of diseases, but also sometimes clear clinical pearls. Superiority over drugs. Given that properly prescribed medications are one of the top three causes of death, what do you dislike about such safe and effective food-based alternatives?
But our projects, and natural medicine in general, are not without their challenges. One is that it’s very easy to get involved in a symptomatic model. Treatment of surface symptomsOf course. This “natural allopathy” does not address the deeper problems associated with avoiding, limiting, coping, reducing or improving environmental exposure, but rather “natural healing” shortcuts and band-aids (“nutritional supplements”). Invite people to look for “food”). For example, diet and exercise.In a culture of taking hundreds of millions of medicines and supplements DailyIt’s getting harder and harder to get out of the powerful psychological pull to ingest Something — Whether it is a natural or synthetic “magic pill”. Instead of addressing the underlying problem, the effect is real or imaginary.
This is also at least as effective as part of our project, from walking to yoga, dietary changes to exercise. Often excellent For traditional drug-based treatments.
So here is a good piece of data. It enlightens the notion that as a non-invasive treatment, it may not be necessary to “take something” to stimulate the body’s innate self-healing ability. do nothing (Ie, careful follow-up) —You can achieve favorable results:
- Colored light vs. benzoyl peroxide for acne: The combination of blue and red light irradiation therapy was found to be superior to 5% benzoyl peroxide in the treatment of scabs vulgaris without side effects. Another study found that blue light therapy alone was as effective in treating acne as 5% benzoyl peroxide, but with fewer side effects.
- Dietary changes and medication for hypertension: A high-fiber, low-sodium, low-fat diet is superior to the beta-blocker metoprolol in patients with hypertensive type 2 diabetes.
- Comparison of acupuncture and drug therapy for sudden deafness: Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy has been found to be superior in treating sudden deafness compared to conventional drug-based therapies.
- Acupuncture and medication to treat migraine headaches: Acupuncture was more effective and well tolerated than drug therapy with flunaridine in the first few months of migraine treatment.
- Comparison of dietary changes and high-dose steroids for Crohn’s disease: While elemental diets are excellent at supporting the growth of children, they are as effective as high-dose steroid treatments in improving Crohn’s disease activity in children. Two additional studies showed similar results in adults with mild to moderate active Crohn’s disease.
- Comparison of Aromatherapy Massage and Tylenol for Menstrual Pain: We found that aromatherapy massage of the abdomen is better than Tylenol for relieving menstrual pain in high school girls.
- Comparison of hypnosis and barium for anxiety: Hypnosis during embryo transfer is as effective as diazepam in terms of pregnancy rate and anxiolytic effects, but with fewer side effects.
- Yoga techniques and antidepressants for depression: Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (rhythmic breathing method) has been found to be superior to the drug imipramine in the treatment of depression.
- Yosic intervention and medication for irritable bowel syndrome: For diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome, yoga intervention consisting of poses and breathing was found to be superior to traditional treatment.
- Foot reflexology and medication for insomnia: In the treatment of insomnia, foot reflexology (wooden needle technique) has been found to be superior to the drug alprazolam.
- Careful follow-up and medication for childhood ear infections: Careful follow-up is comparable to immediate antibiotic treatment for some children with less severe acute otitis media.
This sampling reflects only a minor subset of the data in the TherapeuticActions index, one of the six databases on the GreenMedInfo.com open access site. Currently, 216 different actions are indexed and can be viewed on the Treatment Actions View page. You may be surprised that simple conscious actions such as chewing food completely, laughing, or walking in the woods can produce healing reactions in the human body.
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