Health Alternatives and natural self healing

Naturopathic medicine can treat all sorts of health conditions: from pregnancy symptoms to chronic illness to depression and anxiety. Patients may be looking for alternative treatments to conventional medicine, or wanting to prevent future illness and disease. Different forms of naturopathy have been used in various cultures for thousands of years, and it has since become increasingly popular and widely practiced in the Western world. Naturopathy is a type of holistic medicine, meaning that practitioners look for the cause of disease rather than just treating the symptoms. Naturopaths strive to understand the body as a whole and emphasize prevention as the best cure for all disease and illness. Naturopaths will work with you to modify your lifestyle and rebuild your health. Naturopathic treatment encompasses physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and utilizes the healing power of nature. There are a number of specialties that fall under the term "naturopath." Som...

Man is rediscovering the wealth of wisdom the ancient world has handed over to us through the generations. The allopathic medicine has been highly inadequate in treating many fatal diseases, while the alternative health methods have succeeded with seemingly simple interventions. Some of the recognized and actively pursued alternative health therapies found today are: 1. Aromatherapy - this is a very popular alternative health therapy. It is based on the concept that the body's imbalances can be corrected with the help of the inhalation of different aromas. 2. Acupuncture/ acupressure - these two therapies are combined under one head because the function under the same premise, i.e. that the body has certain nodules or pressure points, which if blocked or stimulated can be efficient in curing pain and many other serious diseases. 3. Herbal medicine - perhaps the most popular of all the alternative health available, the herbal medicine has taken the world by storm. It has prove...

Find Alternative Healing Schools in the United States and Canada. What are alternative healing schools? Alternative healing schools educate potential healers with alternative mind body and health care like aromatherapy, astrology, Feng Shui, hypnosis, meditation, natural and energy healing, new age, spiritualism, yoga, massage therapy, and so much more. Alternative healing schools teach natural ways of alleviating pain and even homeopathic ways to cure our ills. Alternative Healing schools are on the upswing of new age teachings. Alternative healing schools offer us academies for healing arts, naturopathic education and alternative studies encompassing everything from the martial arts like Tai Chi to Reiki and Zero-balancing. Some alternative healing schools allow you to attain a four-year degree in acupuncture, acupressure, herbal prescription, TaijiQuan and meditation. Other alternative healing schools conduct 600-hour clock programs for massage therapy. Additionally, many alt...

Amino acids are the important building blocks that make up protein in our bodies. They are organic compounds divided into several groups: basic acids, organic side chain, and an acidic carboxyl group. Each acid comes in a left-hand (L) form or in a right-hand (D) form. They are the key to having a proper functioning metabolism. There are many supplements on the market to help keep a sufficient supply of amino acids in your body. Let's take a look at what's available in the herbal or supplement market and how you can benefit. Why Supplements? The body cannot use protein directly, but breaks protein down into amino acids by use of enzymes so it can properly digest the protein. Aminos are not stored in the body so they must be replenished on a daily basis for proper protein digestion. Your body produces 14 amino acids. There are 22 that are considered crucial for optimal health. The remaining 8 must come from the foods we eat. Unfortunately, you may not eat the proper foods to ...

Many alternative health supplements aim to increase the levels of essential nutrients that the human body needs in order to maintain healthy bodily functions. In other words, health supplements help people replenish nutrients they may lack, either through a diet that misses out certain key ingredients, or from an illness, disease or condition they may suffer from. When someone is lacking certain vitamins, minerals or essential nutrients there symptoms can range from discomfort, to very severe, life threatening conditions. Todays' fast-paced lifestyle usually means that people are spending less time preparing and eating meals made from fresh produce. Often the foods that we turn to when busy are easy to prepare, and heavily processed. Which means they are often devoid of essential nutrients needed for a healthy body. Eating foods that are "filler" but not nutritionally rich, is not a concern if they are consumed infrequently. It is when they become part of the staple ...

All over the world people are getting older all the time, and even though modern medicine have found many ways to deliver health care, more and more people look for alternative health care. Lots of health insurance solutions nowadays contain the option to seek alternative advice and health care, if the usual channels, does not solve your problem. A typically well educated doctor has spent around 11 years in college and as a resident to earn his medical degree, but even though our doctors are well educated, they do not have all the answers. An M.D. is bound by several limitations, both in what he is allowed to work with, and within the belief system he has developed in his professional environment. When your daily life and teachings all evolves around strict science, lab analysis and the like, it is only natural that some of the alternative treatments seem far fetched from an M.D's point of view. While most medical doctors treat you on basis of your symptoms, most alternative tre...

Good health is a blessing for everyone, and most of us do whatever we can to stay in good health, or get back to good health. Good health relies on good medical care and on taking care of ourselves. This includes exercise, proper nutrition and often plain common sense. An increasing number of people also rely on alternative health products and a variety of nutritional supplements. These can help fight ailments and promote general well-being. The only problem is that there isn't a lot of good, reliable information on natural remedies and supplements. This lack of good information is causing a lot of people to be skeptical about alternative health products. They throw anything that looks like "alternative" or "natural" into the same pot - something not to be trusted. Some people may not even make a difference between alternative medicine, alternative health care methods and simple nutritional supplements. That's unfortunate as there are many different field...

When it concerns the body, veins play an important function. But what comprises the role of those veins that we start to see through the skin when we become older? Let’s have a look at varicose veins and spider veins. The purpose of veins is to bring back blood from the extremities to the heart and then to the lungs where it picks up additional oxygen and abolishes waste materials and starts the cycle once again. Veins contain valves so that blood can’t flow backwards. It’s already going against gravity to pull back toward the heart to begin with. When there are troubles with the veins or too much force on them, they may change in shape. Veins likewise branch off into other parts of the extremities forging what is known as superficial veins. Varicosities oftentimes occur in the bigger veins. When the blood does not circulate as it ought it may pool and form bulges that could be seen through the skin. Varicose veins frequently resemble thickened ropes and occur largely in the legs yet ...

Gestational diabetes is a medical condition that affects blood sugar levels in the body. These sugar levels originate from the foods that we eat. When we sit down to a meal each day the food is digested into its smallest parts so the cells in our body can use them. Many of the foods we eat turn into simple sugars. These sugars need insulin to be transported across the cell wall so the cells can use them for energy. In the condition of gestational diabetes the body becomes resistant to the insulin and then cant use the sugar in the body for energy. Gestational diabetes is very much like type 2 diabetes or what used to be called adult-onset diabetes. A vegetarian diet and gestational diabetes arent mutually exclusive. In fact eating a vegetarian diet and gestational diabetes may be just what the doctor ordered to help maintain appropriate blood sugar levels and control the gestational diabetes so that the mother and baby dont suffer the complications often associated with diabetes that i...

If you enjoy this post, please share it using the buttons in the post , or email it to a friend , we'd really appreciate it! You can also get natural health articles delivered free by email or RSS - AND get a free mini-course on the Healing Art of Reflexology! Guest Post Courtesy of the Xtend-Life Blog I guess there are endless answers to that, and they are all opinions.  I am referring to ‘answers’ that fall outside the scope of lifestyle, diet and exercise, and of course supplementation. Why do I raise it? The other night I attended a function put on by the Thai/New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok.  If their monthly functions happen to coincide when I am in town I usually attend. Anyway, there was a new member there this time and I got to talk to him.  I could see that he was older than me and as often happens, the topic got around to age and health.  He was from Holland and had lived in Thailand for 22 years.  I asked him how old he was and he asked me to guess.  I figu...

Seems like everyone's main health concerns these days are losing weight, getting fit, and getting proper nutrition. The problem with weight loss often isn't losing weight and getting fit; it's staying that way. If this is your philosophy, you are making a life-long commitment to eat better, get plenty of exercise, and altogether be more aware of the needs of your body. It's important to maintain good health while undertaking any physical changes in your body, whether it's weight loss or becoming more physically active. There are a wide variety of alternate health products offered in stores and on the Internet that claim they can help you achieve and maintain your health and fitness goals. More and more doctors are recommending we turn to alternative health products to supplement our diet. You may ask, what are some alternative health products and why are they good for me? Well, to begin with, amino acid supplements are said to be helpful for many reasons. Many ex...

In times past, it used to be that Holistic Treatment was thought of as alternative mumbo jumbo that was best reserved for those who were little out there. However as those of the scientific community have started to understand more and more about how the body works and the value of prevention and balance over that of cure, holistic treatment has come be more widely accepted and respected. Call it holistic healing , integrative medicine or anything else, but it is a fact that holistic treatment, with its emphasis on prevention and achievement of balance, can be the most natural and obvious way to defeat disease and achieve good health. Balance in Holistic treatment: Balance is desirable in everything – in what you eat, in your physical activities and in your lifestyle. If there is proper balance in what you eat and how much you exercise, your body weight will be normal and healthy. If you have a balanced work life, with sufficient stimulation but also enough leisure and also adequate...

By Carol Bardelli Zola Acai Juices and Smoothies are gaining popularity and for a good reason. Acai products are all the rage. Touted as a health product with weight loss properties, acai supplements are made from a small purple berry grown in Brazil. This berry sports a slightly chocolate aftertaste which leaves consumers with a pleasant culinary experience. One of the chief issues with choosing an acai beverage, or other forms of acai, is quality. It’s important to seek a product that’s organic and pure. Some acai products, including some brands of tablets and capsules, are made inferior by their processing techniques and don’t deliver the benefits you seek. You will find the Zola Acai Juices and Smoothies purchase quality berries, and their production process is superior as Zola’s facilities follow strict HAACP standards, including gentle pasteurization. Many feel is best to only buy Acai beverages that have been pasteurized to kill microbes and bacteria. Any company that touts thei...