| From the desk of Dr Magne, author of | | | | example of this would include massage or |
| Cancer Free For Life | | | | physical therapy. The internal approach |
| When you get a headache, how do you take | | | | utilizes moderate invasion including |
| care of it? Most people will admit to | | | | such methods as acupuncture and herbal |
| reaching for an aspirin. This should not | | | | remedies. The conventional approach uses |
| be surprising since we live in a society | | | | drugs, pills, exposure and injections in |
| which wants everything instantaneously. | | | | a form of intensive invasion. Examples |
| After all, haven't thousands of good | | | | of this include implants and radiation |
| scientists spent hundreds of hours, over | | | | therapy. Then, finally there is surgery |
| the course of several years, creating | | | | that of course calls for maximal |
| these solutions? In response to their | | | | invasion. |
| creation, we have paid billions of | | | | Such a hierarchy creates a framework |
| dollars buying such pills as part of the | | | | within which you can develop a personal |
| solution to our medical aches and pains. | | | | health care strategy. You must be aware |
| Yet many cultures outside of America | | | | that preventive, passive care is the |
| continue to cure their dis-eases their | | | | best form of treatment for a "patient." |
| own way, even though there is such a | | | | This is because the best techniques |
| wide variety of drugs available now. | | | | truly affect the problem, not the |
| Headaches are just a small sample of the | | | | symptoms. They also help avoid or |
| many ailments that may be treated by | | | | minimize the cause of other health |
| holistic health care treatments. | | | | problems, otherwise known as side |
| Holistic health care may be used instead | | | | effects. On the other hand, the more |
| of the more conventional treatments. | | | | invasive techniques are more risky |
| The term "holistic" has to do with a | | | | because they involve more people in the |
| person's entire being upon which the | | | | process. |
| proper diagnosis and treatment of any | | | | If you look closely at it, considering |
| given ailment is based. This includes a | | | | the self-regulating functions that are |
| person's emotional, social and physical | | | | based upon the human body's design, you |
| circumstances. | | | | will find that a lot of your continued |
| Does your health care provider take a | | | | well-being is based on noticing the |
| deep interest in any of these? In many | | | | slight deviation from normal due to the |
| cases, physicians simply make | | | | body's interior, natural functions. Your |
| assumptions, and you should be wondering | | | | body is continuously communicating to |
| who really is capable of ascertaining | | | | you. When you start feeling unwell, it |
| your entire health? | | | | is a sign that something in your life, |
| In reality, your health like an | | | | your environment or your diet needs to |
| arithmetic sum of all of these different | | | | be adjusted. However, your first |
| doctors you see, your dentist, | | | | reaction is to pop a pill. Then the |
| gynecologist, generalist, etc. In the | | | | symptom goes away but the root cause of |
| long run, your health is your sole | | | | the problem doesn't get addressed until |
| responsibility. | | | | you start feeling really bad after |
| First, there is preventive care. In the | | | | ignoring many repetitions of symptoms |
| passive sense this includes involuntary | | | | you have ignored. |
| mechanisms, reflexes, and subconscious | | | | Of course there is something which you |
| reactions. Actively this includes all of | | | | can do about this. Choosing holistic |
| your voluntary decisions and | | | | health care will provide for an |
| environmental tactics, as well as any | | | | interesting journey and a very healthy |
| exercise or diets that you undertake. | | | | choice as well. Remember that you health |
| Secondly, there is corrective care. The | | | | is within your control and that your own |
| alternative approach to such care takes | | | | mind can greatly influence your |
| in the external person, and utilizes the | | | | continued well-being. |
| most minimal invasion possible. An | | | | |