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This day and age there are so many products out on the market, particularly when it comes to your health. Who do you trust? How do you choose which products may actually help you, or worse, how do you avoid products that might actually harm you? Choosing Alternative Medicines was developed for the health conscious individual in mind.
This site was developed and is updated by a naturopathic physician who graduated from an accredited university in 2000. For those of you who don't know, a naturopath is educated and trained just like a regular MD, but we are given many more hours of training and education on natural modalities such as homeopathy, botanical medicine, Ayurveda, nutrition, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, herbs, vitamins, spinal manipulation, hydrotherapy, etc..
Please keep in mind that what works for one person may not work for another person. Some of you tend to prefer and do well with just vitamins or herbs for supplementation, or prefer homeopathy or simply taking Chinese Medicine. Whatever your preference, we have specifically broken this information down into these categories, sharing with you what we have found to be the best, clinically tested supplements in each category. If available, and we have seen good results among our patients, we share with you what we have found to be the very best multivitamin, the very best homeopathic remedy, the very best herbal formula, the very best Chinese Medicine, the very best liquid tincture, and the very best topical treatment.
Herbal medicine has a long and respected history. Herbal formulas are derived from the leaves, flowers, stems, berries and roots of plants or botanicals to prevent, relieve and treat disease ailments and illness. Many of the medications or pharmaceutical drugs were developed from ancient healing traditions that treated health problems with specific plants or botanicals. Science isolated the medicinal properties of a large number of plants, extracted their healing components and synthesized them in large laboratories to make many of the drugs and pharmaceuticals people take today. Many people prefer taking these medicines in their purest form to avoid all the unwanted side effects. The power and potency of herbs is very real. Every herbal supplement suggested on this web page has specific healing properties, carefully balanced to create a particular action within your body.
Homeopathic Medicine uses dilutions of plant, mineral, animal and some chemicals to stimulate the defensive systems of the body in a very subtle way. The basis of homeopathy is a concept called the Law of Similars, or "like cures like." Instead of focusing on the specific causes of disease, i.e. bacteria or viruses, homeopathy focuses on the specifics of the symptoms of disease, as they are experienced by you as an individual.
Traditional Chinese medicine (中医, pinyin: zhōng yī), also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China. Main aspects of TCM's concept of the human body, health, and disease, are yin and yang, the Five Elements (五形, pinyin: wǔxíng), the zàng-fú (脏腑) organs, qì, xuě (血, ‘’blood‘’), meridians and the liù yín (六淫, lit. ‘’six excesses‘’, usually translated with Six Exogenous Pathogenic Factors). Modern TCM was systematized in the 1950s under the People's Republic of China and Mao Zedong. Prior to this, Chinese medicine was mainly practiced within family lineage systems. The term "Classical Chinese medicine" (CCM) usually refers to these medical practices that rely on theories and methods dating from before the fall of the Qing Dynasty (1911).
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