Comparing Holistic Health Care And Traditional Medicine

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Holistic health care is converting more and more people all over the world. This movement of revolutionary proportions is owed to the tireless, continuous, awareness generating efforts of environmentalists who have amply explained the harm chemicals can and do to our planet and our bodies. This invokes the worn out debate on which of the systems should be considered the better of the two, i.e. the Western style of healing or the alternative holistic treatment.

Western medicine is still the standard practice of treatment all over the world. What happens when you use this method of healing is that you attack the result of the malfunctioning of the body in an attempt to get quick relief. The Western medicine system is based on the belief that the body is a battle field that has to be defended against enemy intruders, such as viruses, bacteria, germs and the like. Yet holistic health care principles say that all diseases are the direct result of your lifestyle, energy type and level, and beliefs. The bacteria, viruses, etc, would not find themselves inside the body in the first place if the body was encouraged to protect and heal itself through all natural holistic therapy.

The system of holistic health care is based on the principle that the human body is a complete and highly self-sufficient system, which can repair itself under ideal conditions. These alternative therapies are meant to help the body achieve this perfect balance; thus healing itself. The Western medicine system believes that illness is caused by outside interferences and therefore, removing the “invading agents” will bring back your health.

The two healing systems follow two completely different principles of healing. You will find that holistic health care takes the approach that illness is the result of an imbalance of the whole system. The balance is achieved through all natural methods of healing, such as meditation, acupuncture, physical exercise, therapeutic massage and so on. The Western method looks at disease as a part problem, manifested by external interferences that need to be removed so the symptoms will be cured. This is achieved by taking drugs, which are in fact, tiny amounts of chemicals.