Question

Go online and research alternative healthcare delivery systems (that are different from Western medicine). provide a summary of your findings and explain if this would be a type of healthcare delivery system that you might choose to recieve healthcare from. Please include references!

Answer 1

• Alternative medicine consists of wide range of health care practices, products and therapies.
• It is a claim to heal that is not based on scientific method.
• Alternative medicine practises are diverse in theit foundations and methodologies
• Alternative medicine practises may be classified by their cultural origins or by the types of beliefs upon which they are based.
• Methods may incorporate or be based on traditional medicinal practises of a particular culture, folk knowledge, superstition, spiritual belief in supernatural energies, pseudoscience, errors in reasoning propaganda, fraud, new or different concepts of health and disease, and any bases other than being proven by scientific methods.
• Different cultures may have their own unique traditional or belief based practices.
• Alternative medical systems may be based on traditional medicine practices, such as traditional chinese medicine, Ayurveda in india or practices of the other cultures around the world.
• since ancient times, in many parts of the world a number of herbs reputed to possess abortifacient properties have been uses in folk medicine.

Alternative medicine, such as using naturopathy or homeopathy in place of conventional medicine, traditional chinese medicine, ayurveda would be a type of healthcare delivery system based on belief systems not grounded in science.

• NATUROPATHY: Naturopathic medicine is based on a belief that the body heals itself using a supernatural vital energy that guides bodily processes.
• HOMEOPATHY: Homeopathy is a belief that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people cures similar symptoms in sick people.
• Traditional chinese medicine: accupuncture(insertion of needles in body at specified points), massage, exrecise and diet therapy
• AYURVEDA: Ayurveds believes in the existence of three elemental substances, the doshas called vata, pitta and kapha