Wednesday, 23 November 2011

How good do natural remedies really work?

Natural Remedies It is a decades-old dispute: alternative healers
against school doctors, natural chemicals against, tried and tested
against science. Now get closer to both sides - for the benefit of
patients

Anyone with conventional remedies is not further investigated, often
in his salvation homeopaths, naturopaths, acupuncturists or

Perhaps there are stories like that of Florian Klauer, which account
for the fascination of natural remedies. The boy suffered for years
from a chronic runny nose, he always had to be treated with
antibiotics, the doctors did not go on at some point. Then his mother
took him to a naturopath. "The has looked Florian and found that it is
a very deep, chronic thing," says Sabine Klauer. "We started with the
treatment, and now he's the first time in several weeks, no
Schnupfnase. He is so happy about it and we parents also. The duration
of colds has restricted him and he really took a lot of joy. "

Everyone knows these stories. Of children who have long been plagued
by a medical school of eczema and treated unsuccessfully. And after a
visit to the medical practitioner not to scratch the skin sore. Of
adults who toiled for years the migraines and after numerous visits to
the doctor where the pain is finally taken - by a homeopath, a
naturopath or an acupuncturist.

In natural remedies, many people find the natural and gentle, they are
looking in all areas of their lives. Those who buy organic bread
Ökoäpfel and that also takes better do something against his big and
small vegetable suffering, yoga or familiar to the acupuncturist.
Nearly two thirds of Germans now go to alternative practitioners in
1970 there was only one-third. And they give a lot of money on it: a
total of five billion euros in 2006 they paid out of pocket for
natural medical therapies.
The alternative
The Scientific
The Integrative

Pamela Wessel, 34, hotel manager: "I'm reluctant to doctors'

"I had terrible back pain for a long time until I landed five years
ago with my naturopath who is also an osteopath. Together with her I
get the pain under control. I'm generally reluctant to doctors,
healers are really the better choice for me. Because natural remedies
looks rather than the medical school, where are certain ailments and
diseases and how they arise. Especially for my children, I find the
natural remedies well. Meanwhile, I even say: My naturopath is my GP.
"

Most doctors, however, are critical. They ask themselves: How can
something have an effect that is not in our textbooks? Why should a
banal herb better help against a weak heart as a drug that was
developed 20 years? What should align with the smallest needles
stabbing pain in a torn knee? And how should globules - beads, which
contain no active ingredient - a relieve hay fever, asthma improve,
even cure eczema? What are medicinal herbs, acupuncture, homeopathy,
yoga, Ayurveda, Bach Flowers, Reiki, osteopathy and what else is
there, what to look for these sometimes obscure methods in medical
practices and hospitals?
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The conflict between alternative and conventional medical doctors is
old, he sometimes acts as grave a bitter fight. Empathy and patience
with medical equipment and assembly line clearance, holistic healing
practitioner against symptom, quackery to science. And last but not
least against natural chemistry. On the one hand, herbs that nature
has created, whose power has been for centuries, sometimes even
thousands of years ill are exempted from their suffering. On the other
pills in the pharmaceutical industry, on the drawing board designed,
synthesized in the laboratory - chemical clubs with strong side
effects. As simple as it was for a long time.

As simple as it is no more. Something moves. An increasing number of
German universities, once the strongholds of resistance to natural
remedies, created working groups to explore, in medical school natural
medical treatments are now often an integral part, and health
insurance, or rather known to be more economical to assume the cost of
alternative therapies , four billion euros in 2006 alone.

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