What is Alternative Medicine?
Why try Alternative Medicine anyway? Perhaps the better question is why not? From my own personal experience, alternative medicine (also known as complimentary or CAM, or Eastern medicine), namely massage, healing touch, yoga, meditation, acupuncture, and some others, has helped guide and assist in my recovery process. I am still recovering and I am still using these modalities on a regular basis to continue my progress to complete health. These have helped me not only physically, but emotionally and mentally. Alternative medicine has provided a way for me to begin a life anew while reinventing myself at the same time. I would not be out of bed, able to see friends, and write this blog if it had not been for alternative medicine. Further, one tends to use alternative medicine when they are not getting relief from Western medicine (also known as mainstream medicine) techniques, and when one really desires nurturing and attention, especially since mainstream doctors only spend 15 ...