| History has it that alternative medicine
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| | doubt that previous attempts at healing
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| goes back 5000 years to Chinese
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| | were nothing more than mere quackery. New
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| traditional medicine, Indian (Ayuryedic
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| | medical breakthroughs included the
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| medicine) and similar healing traditions
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| | discovery of penicillin, cortisone (a
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| in many cultures. The common belief was
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| | powerful anti-inflammatory medicine),
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| that the energy of the body had to be in
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| | streptomycin (a powerful antibiotic that
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| harmony with the mind, body and spirit. A
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| | is effective in treating tuberculosis),
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| doctor merely facilitated the healing by
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| | insulin (to treat diabetes) and
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| identifying and taking away obstacles
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| | chlorpromazine (an anti-psychotic that
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| that would inevitably lead to a cure.
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| | controls schizophrenia). Open-heart
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| Therapy included lifestyle changes,
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| | surgery, hip replacements, kidney
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| self-care and preventative measures.
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| | transplants, intensive care and
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| Today, what we know of as complementary
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| | successful vaccination programs saved and
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| and alternative medicine (CAM) has roots
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| | improved the quality of countless of
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| going back 5,000 years to Chinese
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| | millions of lives.
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| (traditional Chinese medicine), Indian
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| | It's no surprise that so much power to
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| (Ayurvedic medicine) and similar healing
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| | alter human destiny would lead, as Lefanu
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| traditions. For thousands of years, these
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| | suggests, "to the resultant abandonment
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| diverse medical traditions held a belief
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| | of homely remedies such as massage,
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| in the energy of the body and the need
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| | manipulation and dietary advice, only for
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| for harmony between mind, body and
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| | them to be taken up by alternative
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| spirit. Doctor's simply facilitated the
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| | practitioners." This is exactly what
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| healing process by identifying and
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| | happened - with a dramatic explosion in
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| removing obstacles.
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| | the growth of 'alternative' therapies
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| Throughout most of the 19th century,
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| | throughout the second half of the 20th
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| doctors used the same skills as today's
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| | century. Alongside modern medicine, CAM
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| herbalists, osteopaths and dieticians;
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| | began to develop as an entirely separate
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| they were generous with time and empathy,
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| | discipline - contemptuous of the
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| and relied on a good bedside manner.
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| | achievements of mainstream medicine,
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| Prayer was important, as was "a change of
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| | while at the same time dismissed by
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| air," laxatives, bleeding and leeches.
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| | mainstream practitioners as ineffective
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| Right up until the early 20th century,
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| | and fraudulent. For most people, getting
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| sick people relied on much the same kind
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| | the best from mainstream and alternative
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| of therapies as their ancestors.
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| | medicine was a delicate operation. Those
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| The decades following the Second World
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| | who opted for both mainstream and
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| War brought significant changes. As GP
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| | alternative medical care found that the
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| and journalist, James Lefanu noted in his
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| | best strategy was to remain quite to
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| book, The Rise and Fall of Modern
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| | avoid criticism. Those who did try to
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| Medicine, written in the 50s, a series of
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| | use both services learnt that in order to
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| medical breakthroughs proved beyond a
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| | avoid criticism.
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