The Great Conversation: Holistic Healing

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Tia Gordon

Professor Marcotte

The Great Conversation

14 November 2017

Holistic Healing

You have a constant headache. You decide to go to the doctor looking to receive some treatment. It’s no surprise that the prescription is a bottle of pills. You pop a few every day for about a week and then the headache is gone. But now you feel light headed, dizzy and maybe even a little sad for no apparent reason. But hey, at least your headache is gone. Now you’ve got more problems than you started with. This is the case with many adults today. They go to the doctors seeking a quick fix but end up with more than they bargained for. People of all ages become victims of this. However, there is an alternative, which consists of a whole branch of doctors …show more content…

Aside from looking at diet and exercise, it has a variety of what is called “secondary care treatment options.” Robert Ivker gives a list of remedies which include, Botanical (herbal) medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, manual medicine, biomolecular therapies, physical therapy, drugs, and surgery (Ivker, "Comparing Holistic and Conventional Medicine"). In the event that all else fails, these are the remedies that holistic healing entails. Ivker also states its biggest strengths saying, “[It] Teaches patients to take responsibility for their own health, and in so doing is: cost-effective in treating both acute and chronic illness; therapeutic in preventing and treating chronic disease; essential in creating optimal health.” The main focus is both creating and maintaining optimum health for an …show more content…

There are a few drawbacks of healing health holistically. Robert Ivker addresses spoke of a few in his article. He says that there is a shortage of physicians and training programs as well as addressing that holistic healing is a time commitment as it does not offer a quick fix. (Ivker, "Comparing Holistic and Conventional Medicine"). Physicians tend to go the alternative root, allopathic medicine thus resulting in a shortage of physicians willing to do the training of holistic healing. The other problem is that it is a commitment since it does not involve quick fixes. In the elderly population this can be seen as a negative as no one knows how much longer he or she has on the earth and maybe the individual just wants the quick

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