Essays on Alternative Medicine

In many cases, human sickness is inevitable and hence healing is paramount. Healing is the process of restoring physical and mental health as well as well-being from an ill organism (Hodge, & Nandy, 2011). On the other hand, wellness is more than the absence of…

The health care industry today has become disproportionately profitable that it is now in the business of disease and illness rather than curing health. Doctors are given rewards based of the amount illnesses they diagnose rather than the illnesses they treat or cure. Medical schools…

In ancient times, there was no hospitals, clinic, nursing home, dispensary etc. nature was the answer to all problems of man. In times of discomfort, disease or illness man searched for the surrounding elements- air, water, fire, soil, plants and trees, animals and many other…

Health Care Providers The role of health care providers varies largely with the kind of contribution they make towards resolving the healthcare concern. Firstly, research studies have indicated that acupuncture can help alleviate the severity of asthma and other respiratory diseases (Karlson & Bennicke, 2013)….

Introduction “Sickle cell anemia does not bind me, it drives me. It’s covers with hurt allowing you to see and taste the freedom of health and when you least expect it makes you beg to be normal. I am its keeper and though it hurts…

Introduction Dentistry has come a long way. Since the dawn of history, mankind has worked to develop methods for keeping that most hated of enemies, tooth decay, at bay. It’s a fascinating, rich history, full of famous figures showing up and contributing to it in…

Introduction Tuberculosis is still counted as one of the deadliest diseases worldwide despite its well-documented disease prevention and cure. People who live in countries like sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, the Baltic States, and Russia have more impact on Tuberculosis than the white people countries….

Is breast cancer treatable and what can we do to prevent it? Something all women don’t know about is how to prevent it and what causes it. “Breast cancer is a disease in which cells in the breast grow out of control”. Everyone says that…

Henrietta Lacks “HeLa cells” is whom I call the mother of Science, heroine of medicine, and the mother of life. She was a young woman in her thirties when she was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with an incurable cancer of the cervix in…

Herbal based products have gained an increasing amount of popularity over recent years due to its availability and natural origin. Ayurveda, an alternative medicine practice with roots from India, has been used for over thousands of years and is still widely used today in the…