Holistic Health Is The Need Of Our Time

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Healthy Body. Health Mind

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Time for Holistic Health!

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We all require holistic health approach. In the age of pandemic regular doctors are busy treating Covid-19 patients. They are overloaded from all the sides.

In such times, when your health is the top priority. How can one ignore his chronic pain, anxiety and insomnia?

There is a time for change of doctor. Yes, it might sound weird but trends are showing that people are trying a new path for better health. A new approach towards health and well-being.

Holistic approach offers new ways for treatment

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Unlike traditional doctors and their prescriptions, now many doctors are taking new ways, new holistic approaches to treat their patients.

These doctors are trained in a way to treat health problems in a more holistic and new ways.

They are not prescribing medicines. Instead of this, they are taking advantage of herbs as medicine.

They are offering treatments with meditation and acupuncture also.

Difference between conventional and holistic approach

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Alka Gupta, MD, a codirector of the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Program at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine talks about the traditional approaches of doctors.

She ways that conventional medicine has taught doctors how to put out the fire. But they often don’t get to the bottom of why that fire started in the first place’.

She suggests that traditional doctors do not study the root cause of the problem.

Instead of this, they try to deal with the apparent symptoms in the body.

Holistic Health care provider study body as a whole

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New and more balanced approach is called Holistic Health approach.

The focal point of Holistic health approach is to treat the root cause of the problem.

The holistic doctors keenly observe the person as a whole. They try to find the root cause and then treat it.

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Finding a holistic Health practitioner

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This term ‘Holistic health doctor’ is a broad term.

It does not signify the particular kind of doctor or its qualifications.

Therefore, it is apt to research well about the doctor and his trainings then go for the treatment.

Ronald Glick, MD, medical director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center tells his patients that ‘there’s no formal training or certification that you need to say you are holistic’.

This should not confuse people about choosing their holistic health doctor or finding ways to get treated by alternate medicine.

Ayurvedic Doctor

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Another kind of holistic health practitioner is Ayurvedic doctor.

According to Ayurvedic philosophy, human body is composed of three main life energies. These life energies are called doshas. They are vata, pitta and Kapha.

They stand for space and air, fire and water, and water and earth respectively.

The Ayurvedic doctors believe that one of our doshas are stronger than the other two.

Any imbalance among them can cause prolonged health issues.

For instance, if vata gets upset which controls person’s creative talent then it might cause anxiety and insomnia.

To restore the balance among doshas ayurvedic doctors use scientifically proven remedies.

For instance, turmeric is widely used in Indian cuisines as well as treating many health problems is also the main ingredient used in medicines by Ayurvedic health coaches.

It is also backed by science that turmeric is effective in treatment of knee pain and osteoarthritis.

Many Ayurvedic doctors work as primary care physicians. They also have completed their training from the National Ayurvedic Medical Association to treat chronic health conditions like eczema, digestive health and osteoarthritis.

Naturopaths

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They believe in the ability of body to heal itself without much intervention of drugs.

Just like Medical doctor naturopathic doctor can also examine blood tests, MRIs and other tests to diagnose the underlying health problem.

But their way of treating the problem would be different from the medical doctor.

They do not believe in giving high doses of medicines.

Instead of this, they suggest homeopathic remedies.

But in order to get prescription from naturopathic doctor it is likely to see their qualifications from an accredited medical school.

 Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner

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Traditional Chinese Medicine believes in two repelling yet interdependent life forces- yin and yang.

These life forces help you to be in harmony with the nature.

When these two forces lose their natural equilibrium, Chinese health practitioners help mind and body to regain the balance between these life forces.

They use herbal solutions for treating health problems.

The most popular Chinese way of treatment is acupuncture. It is done by using extra-smooth needles to open the blocked pathways for blood to travel smoothly.

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