A famous Chinese healing technique is acupuncture. Acupuncture is similar to acupressure but it incorporates needles and is believed to restore the flow of life energy in the body (Monroe 6). Two methods of therapy that are not recognized as alternative are the use of prayer and food (Monroe 7). Lately more then ever music is being realized as a form of medicine and it is used as a relaxing agent as a stress release prior to surgery (Marti and!.
Hine 17). The way alternative medicines work is if a person can find a need for something there is usually a cure or remedy out in the world.
With alternative medicine being more and more a part of everyday life, doctors are beginning to use alternative as their main practice. Dr. Ken Bock says " with the advent of managed care, the average doctor visit is now seven minutes and people are turning to alternative practitioners to get the care they need"(Crone 2). This is helping because people are learning that they can find cures and solutions to their ailments that they once thought incurable. "As people learn to take health into their own hands, however, they still need guidance from science. After all, herbal remedies are still unregulated by the FDA, and little is known about their long-term effects"(Crone 2). " For medical doctors currently caring for patients with back problems, anxiety, depression or chronic pain, the odds are greater than one in three that a patient is simultaneously using unconventional therapy for these medical problems without disclosing this fact"(Monroe 3). Sometimes the person do!.
esn't have to be healed to be affected by alternative medicine. Evidence shows that unorthodox medicine does help people feel better, even when it does not really cure the infection or disease (Monroe 3). One alternative advocate named Dossey states "these concepts are going to cause an immense amount of intellectual indigestion in our profession, but it's not necessary to make a choice and pick a path in which you do science and intellectual development or you choose to do spiritual development and religiosity.