Question

Is the incorporation of holistic and alternative medicine with traditional medicine good medicine, in your opinion?

Answer 1

Is the incorporation of holistic and alternative medicine with traditional medicine good medicine, in your opinion....AGREED

Holistic medicine means consideration of the complete person, socially, physically, psychologically, and spiritually, in the management and disease prevention. It is underpinned by the approach that there exists a link between our more general 'well-being' and physical health. A holistic approach means that the doctor is well-informed about a whole life situation of the patient and there is the belief that our well-being relies not just on what is going on in our body physically in terms of disease or illness, however also on the close inter-relation of this with our social, psychological, emotional, spiritual and environmental state. These different states are also vital; and it considers conventional medicine as part of the treatment approach. Holistic approach permits for a wider range of treatment to be used together and encourages open-mindedness for the different approaches. Few of these approaches are inclusive of the use of complementary and alternative medicine however holistic medicine does not dismiss traditional medicine, and uses traditional medicine as part of the treatment approach