If a patient came to a complementary alternative medicine professional for example because of insomnia, this physician or health practitioner might look at issues of constipation as that is a sleep disruptor. They may suggest an herb to help bring deep relaxation or suggest an amino acid to help the brain make more melatonin (a hormone that regulates sleep).
A regular doctor would most likely prescribe a drug.
If you go to a western medicine doctor for type 2 diabetes, he or she has standard medication for you.
A complementary doctor might also prescribe medication for the short term but would explain to you that by altering your diet and exercising daily this kind of diabetes is reversible. You would be educated on how to make lifestyle changes that lead to a lifelong program of better health.
Low energy? A typical doctor would thankfully perform many tests. If your thyroid was a problem again, the answer would be a drug.
A natural health practitioner would also check the thyroid but take it a few steps further. What things you are doing in your life to deplete your energy? Do you eat too many sweets? Use too many addictive substances like caffeine, starch, alcohol, tobacco, artificial sweeteners, illegal substances? They would want to know your stress levels and if you are getting enough sleep, etc. etc. Finding the cause of the problem is an integral part of the solution.
A good natural health doctor is aware of and takes into account known and proven issues like the fact that pesticide residues and drug estrogens fed to animals might be affecting your health. They know that high levels of petrochemicals in our products have been linked to low sperm counts in men and estrogen-related problems in women. Aware of increasing levels of adrenal exhaustion in our stressful world, they would perhaps seek to restore your energy with non-toxic methods for long term health. You might want to actually stop the behaviors that are most likely creating the problem.
Western medicine is often highly invasive using strategies that mimic an underlying and fragmented war against nature. Although in some case this may be in fact a good idea, most of the time it behooves us to try to better cooperate with our own nature first. No known health problem has been linked to a lack of pharmaceutical intake.
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