Importance of Alternative Medicines in Natural Care, Cure and Healing Without Medicines

Literally, alternative medicine means an alternative to “something else”. This “something else” is the western system of medicines, the allopathic, or orthodox way of producing and using medicines. However, alternative medicines are natural chemicals as compared to the artificial chemicals of the allopathic medicines. For example, the absorption of the sun rays gives us vitamin D, whereas we may take pills of vitamin D. Thus, obtaining vitamin D from the sun rays and through many other natural ways offers us these alternative medicines.

Thus, this term has a broad spectrum in which we cover all forms of the medicines, except  the allopathic. In 1973, the Medical Faculty of Rome convened the First World Congress of Alternative Medicines. Amazingly not less than 135 different therapies made their way to emerge as what we know as the Alternative Medicines. The experts of the W.H.O. (the World Health Organization) have also identified, listed and thus recognized 100 types of practices that they have termed as the Traditional Medicines. These traditional medicines bear the name of the Alternative Medicines. Some of the most important ones are as follows:

1. Ayurveda

2. Homeopathy

3. Unani

4. Siddha

5. Naturopathy

6. Yoga Therapy

7. Acupuncture

8. Magneto Therapy

9. Shiatsu

10. Medical Herbalism

11. Meditation

12. Aroma Therapy

13. Bach Flower Remedies

14. Gem Therapy

15. Hydrotherapy

16. Diet therapy

17. Massage Therapy . . . and many others

THE PROPOSITIONS AND NEED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES:

The need for Alternative Medicines is the first and the final proposition that we need to consider. We humans need the chemicals, which our body processes naturally. However, the allopathic practice, full-fledged with the chemicals, has almost made an armed effect on the global health. The reason, as we understand it, is that if there are invaders causing diseases, the body has its own defense mechanism.

We may observe that after swallowing so many chemicals, pills and tonics, our immunity systems are growing weaker and weaker everyday. We do not seem aware that our body has the stronger defense than any disease; however, it does not work if we do not allow it, which is not by forcing the glands to secret the hormones and giving us the desired health care results that allopathic treatments offer.

The role of the Pineal Gland has remained the prima factor in health and spiritual maintenance, helping to keep the body, mind, heart and soul in a natural body rhythm. We know that the Pineal Gland does not work properly when we are suffer depression and/or other mental symptoms, including sitting in the dark, avoiding or not availing ourselves of the sunlight.

The most ancient scripture on Health Sciences, the Ayurveda, describes the Pineal Gland as a connection between the human and nature or the universe. It appears that we are ignorant about the role of the glands, which are storehouses of the most powerful and dynamic chemicals, which we need. In the allopathic way, we try to adjust the quantity of the secretions of these chemicals, namely hormones, the essential biological and the natural chemicals.

However, in the Alternative Medicines, we learn how to make these secretions fit our needs, while healing us and maintaining the health that we need to live as an ideal healthy person. There is a global craze for surgical works as if these have never existed before. The student of allopathic studies and media in general conveys the history, in which people did not know how to perform the surgery.

Ayurveda as well as the Chinese Acupuncture and similar methods, have importance. The Shailya Chikitsa (Surgical Treatment) was an essential part of the Ayurveda. Due to lack of knowledge and the dark age of Science during the 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D., these practices left India while the practice of the Ayurveda remained suppressed due to religious, political and other invading attacks disrupting the knowledge and the wisdom of the nation. One of the practices of alternative medicine that we know is Astrology.

In Astrology, the Vastu Shashtra prevails all over the world as healing through the management of the five elements in the house. This way of Architecture is astrological, as is Feng Shui.

Now, this suppression of knowledge gave way to artificial world, in which processing outside the body became a luxury. One drives a car, but does not like to have a morning walk. The organs, which do not work properly, just leave the body as if these are the spare parts in surgery. We may wonder about the allopathic claim that it has removed the diseases from the world, and people do not suffer as they used to. However, it does not appear so, as the production of allopathic medicines is increasing and the suffering is so high that the majority of people need one or the other medicines.

We may just imagine and wonder about the way the Egyptians kept the mummies for hundreds of the years. They had the health sciences prevailing, which the health scientists are researching as to how it can be possible. Their preservation of the bodies can answer many of the questions that we label as alternative medicines as if these are the ancient ones.

You see that yoga has proved greater marvels by making a genius and research-oriented person, which is not possible by using allopathic medicines for increasing the I.Q.; however there are other factors to which we humans need to pay attention:

1. The focus in alternative medicine is that one goes to the state of physical fitness, mental alertness, social adjustment, aligned with the biorhythm of nature, and spiritually developed. Thus, it aims for making the person a better contributor towards self, family, society and nature. One cannot survive without these, but needs to co-relate with it through spiritual development, which the allopathic ways ignore as claiming that it is a thing of the past. It ignores the philanthropy and selflessness as a mania as if leading people to realize that all are genetically selfish.  Moreover, as Freud says, one goes only for desire in the relationships. However, alternatives medicine rejects these modern notions because nature is not selfish and the human as a product of the highest level cannot be selfish genetically. We need to pay attention to nature and together make global health the essence of Alternative Medicine.

2. The alternative sciences focus on the health in totality; the person is not a single organ. The heart patient is not having problems with the heart only. There are other factors which lead to diseases. These include the way one eats, thinks, and leads life, while executing their responsibilities and duties. The problems arise from the voice of the conscience, which if one suppresses the effect, goes to the entire body, at the physical, mental and the spiritual levels, while leaving effects on the physiology and the biorhythm of an individual. The voice of the conscience is simply the call for having alertness about the biorhythmic of the body and the surrounding nature. It is the full use of self and social awareness, alertness and care for the health. It does not depend on the medicines, as it is not a disease; rather it is a faulty way of living, by which the alternative health sciences or medicines guide us to learn the art of living in a healthy way.

3. The strong chemicals and the surgical procedures which the modern sciences, particularly the allopathic ways, consider the human body a machine, in which the organs and the other functioning parts seem as spare parts in the body. Thus, one may stick to self-assumed right ways, assuming that if any problem arises there is a cure, or that allopathically the organ may be treated surgically to the extent that one loses it. This is mechanical living, to which alternative medicine gives new life if one adopts the healthier way of living, as precaution is better than cure. This precaution is not leaving the foods or avoiding things one likes; rather it gives the self-management such that the individual may master the need and the role of the self-care and the cure.

4. One of greatest advantages, which alternative medicines offer is that they are do not have side effects. On the other hand, it has the side benefits of, for example, while doing yoga for one disease, it cures many other ailments as well.

5. The alternative medicines as the time-tested ways and means of care and cure, give answers to the presence of collagen disorder, degenerative diseases, diseases of the bones and joints, and psychosomatic disorders, in which the behavioral, emotional and spiritual factors have a major role. The allopathic doctrines seem to ignore the word spiritual as something and somewhat a religious term, in which science has no role. However, the spiritual is a word which represents the higher octave of vital energy that we have as humans. The allopathic access is biological and at most psychological, having the physiological ailments arising from these studies. However, as refined petroleum as petroleum in the liquid state can give flight to rockets and airplanes; this is the type of vital energy at the spiritual level. Thus, one commands the body, rather than obeying the signals of hunger and thirst, which have no spiritual significance. Thus, the alternative medicines offer the ability to realize and materialize the vital energy in self-control for self-care and cure.

6. Faith is the food of the Pineal Gland, which can cure any disease. If one has faith, the rate of the cure goes hundreds times better. Faith is the opposite of doubt, which causes the maximum diseases. Doubt diminishes the activity of vital energy and force at the higher octave, the spiritual one. Spiritual is also the most natural way of thinking, feeling and doing. In healing through music, we know that the biorhythm of the music is the food of the soul. In other words, it gives natural energy to the pineal gland and results in higher thinking and living. One who prays knows that there is no alternative to it, and the alternative medicines propose that prayer is the alternative way ascend to the higher level of vital energy, thus using it as the vital power to care and cure the diseases.

Thus, the development of alternative medicines is needed in the present and the future generations. Moreover, it has the border ways to heal, care and cure.