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| all done immediately with the most refined and purest chemicals available. We have our major medical procedures done in haste and we often repent at leisure. Statistics revealing misdiagnoses, incorrect treatment, detrimental drug reactions, unnecessary procedures, surgical errors, hospital-induced infections and a stunning variety of adverse side effects show that every medical intervention carries hidden costs. |
| Over the last few decades, a growing number of medical patients, physicians, nurses and researchers have abandoned the mechanical model of allopathic (symptom-treating) medicine and instead look at the whole person. You are more than a diseased lung or string of hay fever sneezes. You are a special individual whose whole exceeds the sum of its parts. Holistic medicine looks at disease not as the simple malfunctioning of mechanical parts to be treated with standard, unvarying protocols; instead, holistic medicine examines the person first and notes the connections between mind, body, spirit, environment, lifestyle, diet, psychological state and symptoms. |
| Most Americans who suffer from asthma, allergies, emphysema, bronchitis and other respiratory problems are familiar with the orthodox treatments for these maladies. Some for whom the orthodox treatment has been ineffective, or who prefer to avoid its adverse side effects, have turned to alternative therapies for all or part of their treatment. Alternative therapies are growing in popularity for several reasons. They often work as well as or better than their orthodox counterparts; they have few or no adverse side effects; they are often inexpensive and easy to administer at home; they are supported by decades, sometimes centuries, of use and, more recently, rigorous scientific research; and they help place control over one's body and destiny where it rightly belongs, at home with the individual and his or her family. |
| This review of alternative therapies for respiratory illnesses discusses treatments that are popular around the world, some more widely known than others, all of which |
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