Natural and faith healers and holistic healers help your body to cure itself. Prescription drugs fight your body. For most health things holistic are healers best. I still go to my physician on rare occasions because he is trained in diagnosis of a specific complaint. I don't normally use his prescription. Once I know the problem I prefer to heal myself.
Even in diagnosis conventional healers can be blinkered in their approach. One diagnosed a bug that was going around as stomach ulcers. I told him that in my friends it recurred after two months but he ignored me. When it came back two months later his diagnosis was the same, so I tried another physician whose diagnosis was the same again.
So I made an appointment with a holistic healer. Fortunately I caught the flu, and took Echinacea to get rid of it, and cured the stomach infection before my appointment with the healer.
Alternative Medicine
Disillusioned patients are now turning to holistic medicine, especially when they have chronic complaints that allopaths have failed to treat.
Although many wonderful advances and discoveries have been made in modern medicine, surgery and drugs alone have a very poor record for making you healthy because they are designed to ease the symptoms of illness and have side effects that keep the patient coming back.
The cancer industry has the most shameful record of all. As one cancer specialist reminisced "We usually got half a million dollars out of each patient before they died".
Holistic medicine is particularly helpful in treating chronic illnesses and better still, preventing them by maintaining health through proper nutrition and stress management and avoiding environmental poisons.
Choosing Holistic Healers
In the USA you can check whether your practitioner is a member of the American Holistic Medicine Association or American Board of Holistic Medicine, (AHBM). But that only tells you that a board considers the healers are good enough.
In any country try to get a personal recommendation from a friend. Failing that see what other professionals think of a healer. One homeopath was called "sulphur 200" by his colleagues because that was always what he prescribed!
What are your first impressions? Does the healer see you as a person, or as a source of money from a ten minute appointment?
If the healers only ask you about your sickness, they are not wholistic. Practitioners recognize patterns and groups of symptoms that have nothing to do with the sickness. I remember two short summaries "fair, fat, and forty" and "the great unwashed". If a member of each of these two groups had the same sickness they would get a different treatment.
A reliable healer will ask you when the problem is better or worse - standing or lying, hot or cold, morning or evening, covered or uncovered. What do you eat? What is your lifestyle?
You might prefer healers who are sensitive to your feelings and dignity or it might not matter to you.
Alternative treatment should always be explained to you in such a way as to put your fears at rest. Don't forget you can just stalk out of the surgery if you think your doctor doesn't care about you.
Does it matter to you if your healers are scruffy, untidy and their breath smells of alcohol? They might be perfectly good healers, but the personality clash won't suit you. Find another healer.
Does your alternative specialist explain everything to you, including a health plan that shows that he/she takes your progress seriously? Are you given time to make decisions or rushed into it?
Would you send your loved ones there, or recommend the healers to your friends? If so that's a good result for the first appointment. You will build up a better picture on future visits, and possibly change your mind.
If you can afford regular alternative treatments visit your natural and faith healers regularly while you are healthy. Remember, wholistic treatment is better than allopathic because it prevents you getting sick in the first place, so you should use it while you are well, not wait till you need healing.
