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What is Natural Holistic Healthcare?
Some people refer to all non-conventional medicine as being 'New Age'.
In fact, the principles and thinking behind complementary therapy go back some 5,000 years. In both India and China, it was accepted that wellness and illness were opposite forces where wellness held illness in balance. Therefore they realised that the focus should be on achieving balance and harmony of body, mind and spirit as a means of maintaining good health (wellness) and keeping illness at bay.
In the West, the science of medicine evolved slowly from the Middle Ages - the days of potions, alchemy and blood letting. In the C18th and C19th centuries in Europe, there was great excitement and interest in discovering how the various body parts fitted together and what the functions of the soft tissues (like heart, liver and brain) actually were. The body was thought of as a self-regulating mechanism, composed of its constituent parts. When one of the parts went wrong, we had an illness that sometimes required surgery or medicine to put it right.
There was also great interest in combating contagious diseases that led to the hunt for the external causes of disease and for remedies that could be taken by mouth or by injection, that would cure the disease. The focus was always on fixing the part that was unwell.
Within modern western medicine, medical healthcare professionals tend to only treat the body and leave mental health professionals to treat the mind. Both address only the one aspect that is relevant to their training. Essentially, conventional medicine looks to treat the symptoms using drugs, surgery or physical manipulation rather than attempt to address the cause of the symptom itself.
Practitioners and therapists working holistically will look at your wellness by examining your physical, emotional and mental well-being. Holistic therapy is a generic term for any treatment/therapy session that is intended to treat the individual as a whole on all levels. Most complementary or alternative therapies could be regarded as holistic.
Holistic treatments are tailored towards the individual’s needs. They can be dependent on lifestyle, diet, environment, medical history, emotional state and mental health. The approach to a holistic health plan is done as a partnership with your therapist rather than a generic approach found in conventional care.
Natural health encompasses any methods or practices that use nature to provide answers for treatment or prevention of disease and illness. Natural health will use forms of healthcare that encourage natural healing methods and preventative interventions to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Complementary medicine encompasses therapies that are used alongside conventional medicine. Working with conventional medicine, complementary methods use the body’s own healing mechanism to assist healing and ease symptoms of pain.
Alternative medicine is a system of treatment for an ailment or condition that is used instead of traditional western/conventional medicine.
At The Wellbeing Centre, our Therapists embrace natural, holistic, complementary methods and work alongside any conventional treatments that you may be having. Natural, holistic healthcare is not a substitute for conventional medicine approaches.
Within modern western medicine, medical healthcare professionals tend to only treat the body and leave mental health professionals to treat the mind. Both address only the one aspect that is relevant to their training. Essentially, conventional medicine looks to treat the symptoms using drugs, surgery or physical manipulation rather than attempt to address the cause of the symptom itself.
Practitioners and therapists working holistically will look at your wellness by examining your physical, emotional and mental well-being. Holistic therapy is a generic term for any treatment/therapy session that is intended to treat the individual as a whole on all levels. Most complementary or alternative therapies could be regarded as holistic.
Holistic treatments are tailored towards the individual’s needs. They can be dependent on lifestyle, diet, environment, medical history, emotional state and mental health. The approach to a holistic health plan is done as a partnership with your therapist rather than a generic approach found in conventional care.
Natural health encompasses any methods or practices that use nature to provide answers for treatment or prevention of disease and illness. Natural health will use forms of healthcare that encourage natural healing methods and preventative interventions to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Complementary medicine encompasses therapies that are used alongside conventional medicine. Working with conventional medicine, complementary methods use the body’s own healing mechanism to assist healing and ease symptoms of pain.
Alternative medicine is a system of treatment for an ailment or condition that is used instead of traditional western/conventional medicine.
At The Wellbeing Centre, our Therapists embrace natural, holistic, complementary methods and work alongside any conventional treatments that you may be having. Natural, holistic healthcare is not a substitute for conventional medicine approaches.