Why have complimentary medicine treatment?
When you fell over as a child naturally you got up and rubbed the part of your body you fell onto. This was a natural, innate response to a reaction that has been with you since birth and through generations for thousands of years. Similarly a natural resource such as a plant medicine or herb eased many conditions. Despite what you believe this way is natural and NOT alternative!
The paradox of our time in history is that we have more knowledge, but less judgement, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
FMBR Newsletter - May 2002
- Because of patient demand, there has been a grassroots, bottom-up revolution in the nation's patterns of healthcare.
- In the 1950's the American Cancer society had a Committee on Quackery, later this became a committee on "unproven methods of cancer management", which then became the committee on "questionable methods."
- Today the cancer society has a Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
- In 1992 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) created an Office of Alternative Medicine.
- In 1998 this office became the National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The budget which started at $2 million is now $100 million.
- In the spring of 2000 with $12 million dollars the Harvard Medical School established a new Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies. There are now an additional dozen prestigious medical centres in the United States moving in a similar direction.
- Today half of all adults use Alternative, Complementary, or Integrative treatments, creating a $30-billion growth industry. With this growing acceptance it is now politically correct for a neuroscientist, or any biomedical investigator to research these areas -- this shift has occurred in the last two or three years.
- Soon all G.P.s will refer treatable conditions to a complimentary therapist, as this form of medicine enjoys more and more positive results.
- WHY WAIT?
[Reference: Craig Lambert, "The New Ancient Trend in Medicine", Harvard Magazine, March-April 2002, pp.46-49, 99-101.]