Reconciling Natural Holistic Healing With Science
Since the inception of the word holistic, medical science is ceaselessly locked in a constant battle of attrition with natural holistic healing, simply because one sets an unyielding requirement for a cognitive proof while the other makes quasi truths as fundamental parameters. Like mixing oil and water, both extremes just can't find a common center.
Lately however, we begin to see the scientific community opening its doors with acceptance for holistic healing.. Not alternative medicine in a way that it is groundless and unjustified, but instead because it is still yet unexplained by science. And this development of the stance had come only through the constant challenge for justification set by science, and the several irrefutable proofs that say there is indeed going on in the realm of alternative medicine.
Even then, it is still threading a fine line. There is only so much degree of holism science is willing to accept. In the article by Stephen Barrett, M.D. entitled "Be wary of Alternative Health Methods" Dr. Barrett explained the three categories of natural holistic healing:
Genuine alternative medicines are methods that are deemed safe and equally effective by scientific evidences. One such example is the use of placebo for hopeless cases, the 8 glasses a day water therapy, and vitamin C -among several others.
Experimental alternative medicines are methods that are yet unverified but have a strong scientific rationale behind its workings. One such example of these is the use of herbal remedies in natural holistic healing. Another is acupuncture and the chiropractic method. Though largely held in disdain, it is undeniable that acupuncture do indeed hastens healing on treated areas and chiropractic maneuvers help eliminate back pains.
The last category of alternative medicine, the Questionable alternative, lacks everything, from scientific medical rationale to solid and verifiable proofs. Since most practitioners of alternative medicine do not require licenses of kind, it becomes very easy to deceive. In his article, Dr. Barrett says that the classic example of the questionable alternative is homeopathy, since the treatment methods do not offer solid working evidence. Another current example questionable natural holistic healing is the aqua chi detoxification foot spa, which is neither a spa nor a detoxification.
Aside from that, natural holistic healing is growing by the day, not as a fiddle to scam honest individuals with their money but instead give such individuals hope outside the realm of medical science. After all, people have dreamt of walking the moon long before science enabled man to.
