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What Is The Holistic Approach In Medicine

The holistic approach in medicine is mainly achieved through the complementary or alternative therapies and medicine. Holistic medicines refer to the array of healing and self-help practice that are taken from many cultures and that have been handed down for several generations. Because most of the practices do not have a research basis to it, they are normally known as non-conventional ways to improve your health. These practices include acupuncture, herbal medicine, oriental massage, ayurvedic medicines, homeopathic medicines and naturopathic medicines.

A holistic approach in medicine is mainly aimed to assist the body’s natural healing processes. The holistic approach in medicine is thus based on holistic stimulus. Holistic stimulus is the stimulus to the body to persuade it to heal itself. That is, your body is stimulated to perform the job of healing.

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Proactive Medicine

Proactive medicine on the other hand aims to maintain homeostasis. That is, it aims to maintain health on the physical, mental and emotional levels. The principle behind proactive medicine is prevention is better than cure. In traditional Chinese medicine, for example, patients used to visit their doctors while they were well and healthy and they paid the doctor for his/her services, however, if a patient became ill the treatments were free. The assumption being that the doctor did not do his/her job properly and therefore the patient become ill. Luckily, this is no longer the case, even in China.

If one of the doctor’s patients died, irrespective of the cause, the doctor was forced to hand a red lantern in his surgery and this would tell all his patients how many of the doctor’s patients had died. Boy, talk about having to be accountable.

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Psychological and Medicine Treatments For Alcohol Rehabilitation

Usually, psychological and medicinal treatments for alcohol rehabilitation are preferred. The alcohol abuse can result in wide spreading social, economical, physical, and mental damage. The main aim for alcohol rehabilitation is to help the patients lead a happy and drug free life. It comprises mainly of two phases of dependency that are physical and psychological.

The important part of alcohol rehabilitation is the psychological treatment, which focuses mainly on the assistance to the patients thus making them able to cope with the conditions of stress and anxiety. The psychological treatments are aimed to bring positive attitudinal changes to retain a healthy lifestyle.

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