Alternative Health Care

Alternative practices are untested, non traditional and non scientific. They are based on traditional beliefs. All alternative treatments are not beneficial some may on the other hand be highly threatening. The results of alternative medicines are best seen when they are used in association with the conventional medicines. In that case it can be called as complementary medicine.

If a few changes are made in the daily routine then life becomes light and one can breathe a longer life. Instead of three heavy meals daily one should take six smaller meals which may include a breakfast, lunch and dinner with fast food and snacks in between. Eating something every two hours keeps you fresh and you never feel lazy to work. Instead if you take a heavy meal you would feel drowsy which won’t keep you in a full spirit to work. The snacks should not be full of butter or cheese which one would generally consider but should be healthy like fruits, nuts, biscuits and coffee. But again higher amount of tea or coffee should be avoided.Proper vitamins in the diet is also a major factor for good health.

These smaller meals should be well planned and it does not mean one should keep taking meals the whole day round, but healthy food would surely do better. This helps your body burn the calories properly so the metabolism of the body stays fine. Drinking water the whole day round even if you are not thirsty is again essential for the bodily activities.It also helps in weight loss. While exercising and undertaking other activities lot of water is lost from the body. Again in illness like dehydration and vomiting a lot of water is lost. To make up for these losses, regular intake of water does you good. According to the doctors eight glasses of water must be taken daily. It reduces troubles like constipation and headaches. Water helps in eliminating the waste from the body easily, it aids in transportation of food and glucose to the different organs of the body.

If these alternative therapies are adopted one can stay healthy and work better.

Home Health

If you have caught cold or are having sore throat what will you do? Run to your family doctor or probably call your mom up and ask what remedy shall you do for your fever? Well a doctor would prescribe you a Nimesulide or a Paracetamol or rather gargle with hot water, well it’s any day better option to opt for home remedy than go for allopathic medicine. The simplest reason being home cure doesn’t have a side effect in long run and it aids in getting rid of your illness lot more easily.

Home remedies are cures which have passed from generation to generation. They were based on the readily available ingredients and little bit of commonsense. Hospitals and doctors weren’t available and so they opted for easily available ingredients. Through the trial and error of generations, people came upon cures that worked. And that whole process of healing gets instilled in one or two people in a family or community. Home remedies are generally said to be grandmother’s cure and expertise the only reason it being carried on through generations without any scientific explanations behind it. Apparently it has a cure for one and all.

One of the simple solutions to lot many problems is hot water. Contemporary treatments include simple items like salt, garlic, ginger and tea. General belief of food as a preventive and a cure is quite apt. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s book Mistress of Spices – from which we recently had a movie as well had the main protagonist in the movie curing people and their ailments through spices. A proper proportioned diet keeps not only keeps body healthy but mind too.

If the basic routine in the house is maintained than the health of people in your house shall always be free from unwanted diseases like heart disesase, skin disorder, other skin allergies such as chicken pox etc. The correct method to prevent any disease is proper preventive cure. Its not just a saying that prevention is better than cure rather it’s a true fact which should be seriously taken when it comes to health related issues. Simple routines can also keep health problems at bay. A proper balance of homely remedies and exercise can keep the body in shape.

Health Clinic

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Gone are the days when the clinics that you visited for your health problems were the places you went just to get an aid for your illness. Now you look up for a place which has better ambience so that you don’t feel extremely unwell and you feel the need to get well. Today, Patients are looked upon as customers. The main duty of a doctor is no longer just to solve their health problem but also provide them better health related services. But truly, the scene has changed in recent days. Today when you go to a modern day clinic you have a well furnished reception room where soothing music is playing in background, you are answered well by the receptionist, after which the patient is made to comply various process started by clinics for their efficiency. The medical details are recorded in the database and the patient is guided from a test to another. They are no longer left at the mercy of signboards but are attended immediately. The services have become more personalized but at the cost of a very heavy damage on patients pocket.
Today the concept is no longer a service to humanity. Gone are the days when doctors were equivalent to gods and patients used to be at their mercy. Today it has become a corporate service. If you can afford the best the doctors are at your service otherwise you do not have all the luxuries and comfort of a 5 star hospital and clinics. Today after hotel industry even hospital comes under hospitality industry, Medical tourism is the in thing and for which when you enter a hospital for a minor surgery you have an option of a simple room, deluxe room, super deluxe and a suite. The doctors have also become more professionals. Today they have a larger game at hand. Did you ever remember any hospital publicizing its services, well the times have changed, today hospitals run campaigns for their publicity, due to the professional hazard they cannot publicize directly so they route it via professional services hired from Public relation agencies.