A General View On Whole Medical Systems
The idea behind whole medical systems is simple. They are the complete systems of diagnosis and practice that is a part of healthcare, often a combination with alternative medicine and conventional health care. Different types of whole medical systems exist which include Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine and also some unconventional practices followed in western countries for natural healing.
Ayurveda is a kind of whole medical system which has its origins from India long time before 4000 years. The basic principle of this type of medicine is that all the illness is due to an imbalance of the prana, which is nothing but our body's life force. The equilibrium is maintained in the human body by three bodily qualities or doshas that includes vata, pitta and kapha. A dominant dosha is found in the case of most of the people and a kind balance for the 3 doshas is unique for each and everyone according this form of medicine.
Symptoms, lifestyle, and behavior are the 3 things asked by ayurvedic practioners for evaluating their patients. They will be observing a patient's overall appearance, which includes their eyes, tongue, and the skin. They also take pulse of the patience along with taking urine and stool sample. With such evaluation, they will determine the person's balance of doshas and will decide a treatment plan which specific for each person. Ayurveda also uses techniques such as massage, meditation, yoga along with diet control ,usage of herbs and most importantly internal cleansing which is a method of therapeutic elimination which done typically by injecting some fluid into a person's rectum which causes bowel movement or enema to bring the equilibrium inside the body back to normal.
According some detail study on this type of treatment some herbal combinations used by the ayurvedic experts is known to have therapeutic effects as they contains heavy metals like lead, mercury and arsenic. In some rare cases, there are reports about poisoning by taking such herbs. Another type of whole medical system is the homeopathy which was developed in Germany long before. The basic principle behind this is that same substance that causes health problems when given in large quantities can also help to cure these problems when given in smaller doses. The small amount of such substance will be a prime reason to stimulate body's healing mechanism.
Unique characteristics of each people form the basis of this treatment that includes a person's personality and his lifestyle mainly. Natural substances like the plant and animal extracts together with minerals forms the basic ingredients for the remedies in homeopathic treatment. Such substances are excellent as they can stimulate body's healing capacity. A homeopathic medicine is prepared by diluting each substance and shaking them profusely. The amount of dilution determines the strength of a homeopathic medicine. There no scientific explanations for the reason how this medicine heals a particular illness. Along with advantage there also few disadvantages with this form of treatment which include side effects such as allergic reaction and other toxic reactions.