Bill Sardi
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 Journal Alternative complementary medicine 10: 687-91, 2004; Journal Ethnopharmacology Oct 12, 2005] While Essiac has been shown to have strong antioxidant activity [Journal Ethnopharmacology Oct 12, 2005], and in a lab dish may inhibit prostate cells from replicating [J Alternative complementary medicine 10: 687-91, 2004], human studies using Essiac have not been performed. There are many anecdotal reports that Essiac is beneficial for cancer patients. [Phytotherapy Research 14: 1-14, 2000]
Another promising and popularized tea is red rooibos tea, which also has anti-cancer properties. |
Roberta Bivins
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 A final crucial difference between contemporary and historical waves of interest in both alternative and cross-cultural medicine is signified by the novel category of 'complementary medicine'. Although the terms are often used interchangeably in the media, the modifiers 'complementary' and 'alternative' designate very different relationships to orthodox biomedicine. As I have demonstrated in previous chapters, 'alternative medicine' is practised independently from and often in opposition to medical orthodoxy. complementary medicine instead is practised as a supplement to orthodox treatments. |
Bill Sardi
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| Journal Alternative complementary medicine 10: 687-91, 2004; Journal Ethnopharmacology Oct 12, 2005] While Essiac has been shown to have strong antioxidant activity [Journal Ethnopharmacology Oct 12, 2005], and in a lab dish may inhibit prostate cells from replicating [J Alternative complementary medicine 10: 687-91, 2004], human studies using Essiac have not been performed. There are many anecdotal reports that Essiac is beneficial for cancer patients. [Phytotherapy Research 14: 1-14, 2000]
Another promising and popularized tea is red rooibos tea, which also has anti-cancer properties. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Complementary medicine" is a term that defenders of conventional medicine like to use to claim intellectual ownership over alternative medicine. complementary medicine means combining conventional therapies with alternative therapies, but the alternative therapies are almost always dismissed from being the primary treatments as they are routinely relegated to supportive roles. For example, complementary medicine's supporters might say that ginger is great for reducing nausea following chemotherapy, but they would never say ginger or garlic are anticancer herbs in their own right. |
Roberta Bivins
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| Are these terms, and the concept of a 'complementary medicine', even meaningful in a non-western context?
With the global dissemination of biomedicine has come a tendency for western policy-makers and institutions to regard indigenous systems of medicine throughout the world as 'alternatives' even in their countries of origin. Thomas Reardon, then-president of the American Medical Association illustrated, but also acknowledged, this perception clearly in 2000: 'Treatments that initially look 'alternative' to Western culture may be part of the medical mainstream in the originating culture. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Fratellone, former executive medical director of the Atkins Center for complementary medicine.
"People are walking around with normal cholesterol, normal LDL, normal HDL, and high triglycerides, and that's why they have a heart attack. The only way to decrease your triglycerides is through diet: You need to restrict refined carbohydrates and sugar. |
| Diabetics are particularly prone to problems, says the former executive medical director of the Atkins Center for complementary medicine.
Reproductive endocrinologist Deborah Metzger, M.D., Ph.D., a leading expert in the field of fertility and reproductive health, also believes that eliminating or cutting back on sweets could help resolve sexual dysfunction problems for both women and men. |
| Atkins Center for complementary medicine in New York City and author of The Hamptons Diet.
Nutrition-minded physician Joseph Mercola, D.O., author of Sweet Deception and creator of the number-one natural health website www.mercola. com, suspects that "as many as 80 percent of people are addicted to refined sugar and grains."
And preventive medicine specialist Michael Lam, M.D., M.P.H., A.B.A.A.M., medical education director for the Academy of Anti-Aging Research, guesses that as many as 90 percent of us are addicted. "Not to be hooked on sugar and refined carbohydrates is abnormal nowadays. |
| Pescatore, former medical director for the Atkins Center for complementary medicine in New York City.
"Wheat berries are just better carbs," he concludes. "They're not wasted calories. They provide vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. They tend to be more filling and satisfying. They're more slowly metabolized so you don't have rapid blood sugar swings. And they have fiber, which could help prevent cancer and other diseases. |
Ray D. Strand
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 This is complementary medicine, not alternative medicine. Although in the studies many patients improved so much they were able to stop taking several of their medications, they were not cured of their underlying heart disease.
It is important to note that patients should continue taking supplemental CoQlO over the long term. Clinical studies report that when patients discontinue using supplemental CoQlO, the needed fuel source becomes depleted again and heart function slowly decreases back to its previous poor level. On the other hand Dr. |
| Please note: I never have asthmatic children discontinue their medication, because as I shared before, nutritional supplements are not alternative medicine—they are complementary medicine.
I have enjoyed working with children with severe allergies because they respond so well to nutritional supplementation. I remember a story one mother shared shortly after starting her child on my recommended supplements. Her five-year-old was sledding in the snow. As was the custom, the mom was patiently waiting at the door with the child's inhaler. |
| But remember, I am not suggesting alternative medicine; I am strongly recommending the complementary medicine of nutritional supplements.
The question is, why am I alone in this? Why are physicians so reluctant to recommend that their patients with asthma and allergies take nutritional supplements? It's a mystery to me.
Air Pollution and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary lisease
There is nothing harder than watching patients, young or old, struggle with every breath, often requiring nasal oxygen twenty-four hours a day. |
Bill Sardi
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| Journal Alternative complementary medicine 8: 143-52, 2002]
The use of 160 mg of saw palmetto berry extract twice daily (320 mg total) has been shown to reduce night-time urge to urinate by 33 to 74%, and day-time urinary frequency by 1 to 43%. International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) improved by 37% with saw palmetto compared with 39% with Propecia (finasteride). |
Ray D. Strand
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| I concluded after much study that using nutritional supplementation on patients is not alternative medicine but is instead complementary medicine.
In fact it may represent the very best in mainline medicine because it is true preventive medicine. Taking nutritional supplements is not about eradicating disease; it is about promoting vibrant health.
After reviewing medical research studies, I have absolutely no doubt that my patients who take high-quality nutritional supplements have a health benefit over those who don't. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 For people new to bioenergetics and biophysics, and even for those familiar with complementary medicine, it can take a huge conceptual leap to not think in terms of allopathic medicine, in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between a disease and an organ or physiological process. That is not usually true in bioenergetic healing. So let's take a moment to discuss the logic of bioenergetic healing, which can seem almost completely opposite to the logic of conventional medicine.
THE LOGIC OF BIOENERGETIC HEALING
In conventional biology, the body has a physical and a biochemical reality. |
Roberta Bivins
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| Of course, if a consumer is drawn to a particular practice because it is not orthodox, this normalizing would not necessarily be welcome; as the Report noted, 'if complementary medicine is subsumed within conventional medicine, the opportunity to be "different", and the valued freedom associated with that opportunity could be lost'.22
At this point it is appropriate to note, even if this volume cannot discuss at length, the substantial differences between national responses to the rise of alternative, complementary, and cross-cultural medicine. |
| Instead of confronting biomedicine as an equal, complementary medicine takes either an adjunct or a subordinate role in patient care. Today, most heterodox techniques are practised in both modes—and the practices may be virtually identical in content in either mode. However, the significance and experience of heterodox practices for consumers and providers alike are substantially inflected by a complementary or alternative stance. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Whether the terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, natural medicine, or holistic medicine are used, they all reflect the transformation that is occurring in health care: a focus on disease prevention, the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits, and the treatment of disease with natural, nontoxic, and less invasive therapies. At the center of this transformation is a distinct system called naturopathic medicine.
The roots of naturopathic medicine are seen in the healing traditions of Egypt, India, China, Greece, Germany, South and Central America, Africa, and native North America. |
Mark Sircus
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 Americans' dissatisfaction with traditional health care is seen in the more than $27 billion they spend annually on alternative and complementary medicine. The numbers continue to grow for reasons that have to do with increasing distrust of mainstream medicine and how it is maintaining a blind eye to medical logic and sound scientific principles. Alternative practitioners can provide a profound benefit to their patients by integrating magnesium into the foundations of their medical and healthcare practices. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Orthodox medicine and complementary medicine have different approaches to treating asthma. But there should be no controversy about who is right or who is wrong. For the sake of asthmatics we feel it would be far better if a spirit of co-operation and collaboration existed instead. Asthma management should encompass all aspects of a person and their condition.
As the book discusses many different methods of healing, readers will probably not have heard of some of these therapies before. This does not mean that they are new or revolutionary. |
| Such an approach is common to many workers in the field of complementary medicine.
Behavioural kinesiology is not unlike applied physiology, a powerful system of stress management procedures developed by American Richard Utt. Using deep, accurate muscle testing procedures and monitoring techniques, applied physiology evaluates stress in various parts of the nervous system.
Although broad muscle testing procedures and techniques are specific to trained practitioners, kinesiology is practised by many people, including chiropractors, osteopaths and natural therapists worldwide. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| Part 2 recounts how NES grew out of our own needs, for we both were seriously ill and unable to find lasting help from either allopathic or complementary medicine. We then recount Peter's long, and so often perplexing, journey toward understanding the true nature of the human body-field and its role in health. We end part 2 by relating how Harry's vision and Peter's research came together to inspire the creation of Nutri-Energetics. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Again, this is why I call the use of high-quality, nutritional supplements complementary medicine.
Optimal Levels of Nutrition
You must remember, especially if you are a health-care practitioner, that vitamin E, selenium, calcium, magnesium, and vitamin C are simply nutrients that we should be getting from our foods. But we continue to study them as if they were drugs. Drugs must go through rigorous clinical trials to assure they are safe and effective, because they are synthetic substances that disrupt natural enzyme systems in order to create a therapeutic result. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 In chapters 7, 8, and 9,1 guided you through a series of possible therapeutic steps, some of them very definitely rooted in complementary medicine. Rejecting this broad-brush approach means that you will have to be your own doctor. I don't think that's ever a good choice. There's a difference between taking an active role in your care while working with professionals and imagining that you can do it all by yourself, deciding which treatment practices to choose and rely on. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Promoters of "complementary medicine" are usually closet drugs-and-surgery pushers who use this phrase to avoid appearing totally out of touch with health trends. The complementary medicine movement is largely an attempt by conventional medicine promoters to prevent their harmful system of medicine from appearing completely irrelevant as the public turns to safer, more effective and natural alternatives. Conventional doctors refer to it as CAM, or Complementary and Alternative Medicine. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 A 2002 study in the Journal of Alternative and complementary medicine posted impressive results—upper and total respiratory symptoms were reduced significantly with the use of MSM. Lower respiratory symptoms were also significantly improved. And as a bonus, energy levels increased.
Sulfur is also a constituent of glutathione, arguably the most important and abundant intracellular antioxidant in the body. This makes MSM a great detoxifier. Because many individuals' sulfur stores are depleted, the ability to detox the body of heavy metals becomes diminished. |
| Many of the best people in the field of complementary medicine, including Jonathan Wright, M.D., believe that low acid is endemic in our society and can cause a host of problems that clear up or improve noticeably once the low acid level is corrected.
Selenium: The Powerhouse Antioxidant
People with asthma are subjected to increased oxidative stress, the damage done to cells by free radicals of oxygen molecules. One super antioxidant that has special importance to people with asthma is selenium (see Desert Island Cures, page 313). |
| Many doctors who practice integrative or complementary medicine will perform these.)
Zinc: 25 mg
Selenium: 200 meg
Chamomile: A natural anti-itch treatment. Boil up tea and pat on affected areas with cotton. (Let the tea cool first, lest you replace itching with burning.)
Witch hazel: A soothing anti-itch remedy. Apply on eczema as needed.
Colloidal oatmeal bath: Lukewarm, before bed, whenever necessary
Note: All dosages are daily and come in pill or capsule form unless otherwise noted. |
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