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While the society evolves, alongside with technology and medicine, modern day individuals seek to gather more information and identify more health conscious alternatives when treating their diseases or discomforts. A notable trend is that of reducing the use of highly chemical pharmaceutical products and turning to more natural products that help maintain and preserve health. And as part of this trend, people turn more and more to homeopathy and traditional Chinese medicine.
The two alternatives are often viewed as either substitutes or complementaries to the pharmaceutical products, but a confusion is often made in believing that the two are synonymous. The two concepts do share some notable common points, the most important of them being that they both seek to create a balance of energies within the body and thus to preserve or restore health.
"Both Homeopathy and TCM work to correct internal imbalances or imbalanced energy, and are both described as energetic medicine. Energetic medicine is the practice of treating ailments and promoting health by working with the energy pathways of the body" (Eliaz).
Homeopathy, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, is an alternative to the traditional...
The first of its principles is the "like cures like" theory, which states that an illness in an individual can be cured by a substance which produces similar symptoms in a healthy person. The second principle is the "law of minimum dose," which states that an illness can be cured with the minimum dosage of the recommended substance -- and oddly enough, the treatment sometimes administered does not even contain the initial substance any more.
Homeopathic products often come in the form of small, sugary pellets, which contain some small percentage of a medical substance and which are administered by keeping them under the tongue until they dissolve; while this is the most common form, the homeopathic products can also be found in the form of ointments, drops, gels, tablets or creams (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health).
Traditional Chinese medicine has its origins in ancient China and has evolved over millenia. Its primary focus is that of aligning the mind and the body in order to increase the chances of health; in mind and body practices, traditional Chinese medicine also uses herbs and various techniques, such as acupuncture or tai-chi. While in…
References:
Eliaz, I., Uniting homeopathy and Chinese medicine. Insiders Health. http://www.insidershealth.com/article/uniting_homeopathy_and_chinese_medicine/4457 accessed on March 11, 2015
Homeopathy: an introduction. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. https://nccih.nih.gov/health/homeopathy accessed on March 11, 2015
Trditional Chinese medicine: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. https://nccih.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/chinesemed.htm?lang=en accessed on March 11, 2015
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