Alternative Medicine Infiltrates Conventional Medicine
The more important question is … why?
What is it that conventional medicine is lacking, such that alternative medicine can step in and offer a solution?
We can talk all day about the merits of acupunction versus crystals versus chiropractic versus aromatherapy or homeopathy … but conventional medicine is losing market-share to alternative therapies.
Why?
AP IMPACT: Alternative medicine goes mainstream
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
At one of the nation’s top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient’s bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible energy fields. The anesthesia chief, Dr. Richard Dutton, calls it “mystical mumbo jumbo.” Still, he’s a fan.
It’s self-hypnosis” that can help patients relax, he said. “If you tell yourself you have less pain, you actually do have less pain.”
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