I am sharing this article The Wellness Warrior, Jess Ainscough, has passed away with those who are considering alternative therapy for themselves, their relatives or friends. In my practice I have come across patients who would rather choose alternative therapy for their medical conditions. Some factors which make them choose this unconventional treatment include, like the case in the article, the conventional solution is disfiguring like amputating an arm or a foot. Others are the after effects of conventional drugs like nausea,vomiting and diarrhoea or loss of hair among others.
People are attracted to traditional or alternative treatment because they do not have many of the above side-effects and that they are in control of their own dosing. With no doctor to monitor they can take one day and not the next. In a nutshell, they are much in control of their own "medicating" along with their "prayers".
I met a lady who was diagnosed as a diabetic and not being given a proper advice and counselling, she decided to go on a fast to "reduce" the sugar in her blood. And one day she was prescribed with "metformin" the first line drug for diabetes and again not being given the proper advice on drug taking, she took the drug on an empty stomach following which she had voluminous diarrhoea and became really sick. She then decided to go on an alternative therapy and avoided conventional medicine. No one could convince her to have conventional treatment for her diabetes. I feel really sorry for this lady.
Another lady from a wealthy family who suffered from cancer was being treated with the best in a hospital in Singapore and was in remission when she decided to go for an alternative therapy and within a few weeks of starting it (with prayers from the religious man) she became worse and expired.
Alternative treatment is here to stay as long as people think that conventional treatment is not effective (that is not curative), a lot of time anyway, the treatment delays the process of the cancer invasion and some are palliative and few curative especially if detected very early. Most cancers, by the time they are detected, the rogue cells have already travelled to many parts of the body especially to the liver where they "breed".
The same for treatment for chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes: the conventional treatment is to delay damages to all the organs in your body as a result of high pressure and high sugar level. They are not curative.
I hope you discuss well with your experienced doctor before you embark on alternative treatments for your maladies.
People are attracted to traditional or alternative treatment because they do not have many of the above side-effects and that they are in control of their own dosing. With no doctor to monitor they can take one day and not the next. In a nutshell, they are much in control of their own "medicating" along with their "prayers".
I met a lady who was diagnosed as a diabetic and not being given a proper advice and counselling, she decided to go on a fast to "reduce" the sugar in her blood. And one day she was prescribed with "metformin" the first line drug for diabetes and again not being given the proper advice on drug taking, she took the drug on an empty stomach following which she had voluminous diarrhoea and became really sick. She then decided to go on an alternative therapy and avoided conventional medicine. No one could convince her to have conventional treatment for her diabetes. I feel really sorry for this lady.
Another lady from a wealthy family who suffered from cancer was being treated with the best in a hospital in Singapore and was in remission when she decided to go for an alternative therapy and within a few weeks of starting it (with prayers from the religious man) she became worse and expired.
Alternative treatment is here to stay as long as people think that conventional treatment is not effective (that is not curative), a lot of time anyway, the treatment delays the process of the cancer invasion and some are palliative and few curative especially if detected very early. Most cancers, by the time they are detected, the rogue cells have already travelled to many parts of the body especially to the liver where they "breed".
The same for treatment for chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes: the conventional treatment is to delay damages to all the organs in your body as a result of high pressure and high sugar level. They are not curative.
I hope you discuss well with your experienced doctor before you embark on alternative treatments for your maladies.
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