Alternative Medicine Schools - Making the Grade

Some in the conventional medical community may argue that alternative medicine is pseudoscience, but in all actuality, alternative medicine schools are beginning to enlighten society not only with their comprehensive curriculums, but also with scientific research that proves otherwise.

Alternative medicine schools have come of age in the past half century as more consumers are migrating toward non-invasive, natural medicine. Even traditional medical doctors are beginning to integrate alternative and complementary therapies into their patient services.

It's not a matter of alternative medicine being better than conventional medicine; it's just that in some cases, alternative medicine schools (through research) have discovered that treating patients as a "whole" and not just the disease, may sometimes be more conducive for healing to occur. While many people may have the same disease, there are multiple natural medicines that can be applied to meet the independent needs of each individual. More specifically, the belief that one conventional medicine therapy can treat and/or cure ALL disease is not an absolute truth.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (a division of the National Institutes for Health), in cooperation with a number of alternative medicine schools and complementary medicine schools, has performed extensive clinical trials and research in a variety of alternative therapies and treatments.

Just recently, it was discovered that the integration of complementary or alternative medicine in nursing (with therapies such as acupuncture, herbal supplements and other natural remedies), allowed patients to achieve a higher quality of life.

Furthermore, alternative medicine schools and other interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated, through clinical experiments, that "...evidence now support the idea that deficiencies or imbalance in certain highly unsaturated fatty acids may contribute to a range of common developmental disorders including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)." This particular study demonstrated that the addition of ALA-rich nutritional supplementation (flax oil) provides "a significant improvement in the symptoms of ADHD was reflected by reduction in total hyperactivity scores of ADHD children." ..... Read More