Posts Tagged ‘complementary alternative medicine’

What is Holistic Animal Health?

July 14th, 2011

Holistic veterinary medicine is a type of veterinary practice that utilizes complementary & alternative medicine and therapies in the treatment of animals. Treatment may be for physical ailments, illness, behavior modification and a host of other issues. It can (and is) also utilized to maintain health, rather than simply to treat or cure ailments.

A holistic veterinarians approach is one where they focus on empathy and treatments utilizing minimal invasive techniques. Interest in complementary alternative medicine (CAM) is increasing among veterinarians.

Practitioners on our site provide the opportunity treat our animal companions whole health and understanding through a wide-range of holistic services, including the following:

- Acupuncture
- Chiropractic
- Massage
- Herbal supplements
- Proper nutrition
- Alternative therapies
- Intuitive communication
- Holistic Grooming

A holistic veterinarian is simply a vet who specializes in one or more alternative or complementary treatments. The American Veterinary Medical Association has stressed that “There is only one veterinary medicine and only one standard by which it should be assessed. All treatments and modalities should be judged by the same criteria and held to the same standards.” They also state that alternative veterinary therapies should not receive any special consideration when their efficacy or the safety of those treatments is judged.

Holistic veterinarians examine and diagnose their animal patients by taking the animals whole life, environment, stress levels, full patient history and their day to day behavior into consideration, and then apply a combination of both conventional or ‘traditional’ modalities of treatment, along with holistic ones.
It has been recommended that holistic veterinary medicine be practiced only by licensed veterinarians who have been educated in the modalities they plan to employ. They may well be a member of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association. In addition, the modalities that comprise holistic veterinary medicine should only be practiced according to the licensee concerning each modality.

According to the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, holistic medicine, by its very nature, is humane to the core. Holistic thinking centers on love, empathy and respect, and the techniques used are gentle, minimally invasive and incorporate both patient well-being and a reduction in stress. The emphasis is to get away from traditional ‘crutches’ like x-rays, blood tests and other ‘technological’ diagnoses, and instead to develop a sensitivity and understanding of the animal during the consideration of treatment.

The New Medicine: Integrative, Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) – Medical Intuition & Distan

June 18th, 2011

In the Bravewell Collaborative’s PBS special on the New Medicine Dana Reeves expressed that traditional medicine is now examining and addressing the entire mind body connection. One of the physicians interviewed stated “It is dumb” to not look at the entire person in order to determine the complete patient diagnosis.

PBS previews state:

“A burgeoning movement is taking place in hospitals and clinics across this country – integrating the best of high-tech medicine with a new attitude that recognizes that treating the patient as a whole person is essential to the healing process. As scientific findings reveal that the mind plays a critical role in the body’s capacity to heal, the medical community is beginning to embrace a new range of treatment options, including many once considered fringe.

The National Institutes of Health has been funding rigorous scientific research to determine what alternative healing strategies are safe and effective so that there is solid evidence to broaden medical choices for patients. “Integrative medicine means being able to offer patients a full array of choices from conventional medicine, but to be able to add those complementary and alternative strategies where we have scientific evidence that they work and they’re safe,” says Dr. Margaret Chesney, Deputy Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a division of the NIH. “

Your body’s energy system records and stores everything that has occurred since your physical being was born. Its energy blueprint provides a complete information source about what has and is occurring. Your energy divulges whether physical health issues were derived from an emotional connection or are an acquired physical manifestation from cellular deficiency or breakdown. Medical intuition is the science of tapping into this energy blueprint resource to locate the origin of your issues.

Although modern medicine uses MRI’s, x-rays, PET, CAT, Trilogy, and MUGA scans to determine physical issues, most emotionally caused physical issues go undetected.

Medical intuitives can provide insight into direct links between the emotions lodged in your energy memory bank, and how those emotions created health issues. Louise Hayes, in her book “You Can Heal Your Life” actually lists disorders, and the common emotional patterns that create health issues.

Medical intuition can also provide insight to physical issues that will be entering the human body. Energy disorders present themselves in the exterior energy field or aura of our body before it enters into the physical body. New Medicine is trying to stop destructive exterior patterns such as thoughts, behaviors, etc. from creating unhealthy energy patterns that eventually create disease in our physical body. Thus the term “mind over matter” has great relevance in today’s medical treatment. Additionally, once the physical body is combating unhealthy energy, using your mind to generate healthy energy frequencies helps facilitate healing.

Some medical intuitives are able to see your body’s actual cellular and organ structures and systems like an MRI. Those medical intuitives can provide immediate information as to the location, extent and severity of physical disease and disorders, and even provide information about possible future health problems. This viewing ability is an asset in emergency room medicine. It reduces stress and saves time in critical care, intensive care, trauma injury and pediatric care. Medical intuition complements modern techniques by providing a broader knowledge base for the patient to determine their total treatment, and integrates the best of all worlds to create their health care regime using the total mind and body connection.

Energy Healing is another technique. Although considered alternative and complementary health care and medicine, “energy medicine” is now being considered more and more as a valuable healing modality in mainstream medical facilities. Everything has energy. When you reestablish healthy energy patterns, you facilitate the body healing itself. Disease is altered energy that is not resonating at a healthy frequency. Everything has a frequency or it doesn’t exist. There are many charts available on the internet that list the frequency of a healthy body (62-78 MHz) or the frequency of particular organs. A diseased organ will not have the same frequency as a healthy organ or an entire body. Energy healing addresses the frequency of your body and its energy centers (chakras), flow directions (meridians), and blockages or any changes in your systems or cells energy patterns.

Energy healing has been around for 2000 years or more, in the form of acupuncture. Acupuncture works by stimulating the patient’s own chi or life-force energy to accelerate the healing process. There are numerous other forms of energy healing that complement and integrate with modern medicine that can be done while you are working with your physician. Quantum touch, Energy Medicine, Healing Hands, Healing Touch, Reiki, Huna, reflexology, Vibrational medicine, acupuncture, shiatsu, acupressure, Craniosacral work, Pranic Healing, Energy psychology, Chinese Medicine and a multitude of others aid the body’s energy to facilitate health.

An added value of medical intuition and most forms of energy healing is that the intuitive diagnosis and energy healing services can be performed from a distance or remotely and immediately. This saves valuable time, dehabilitating travel for critically ill individuals, and offers another assessment and healing modality for any person in any location. Both are non-threatening, non invasive, and have no side effects, and are compatible with your current treatments and procedures.

The new medicine integrates alternative complementary medicine and techniques with traditional medicine to address the entire person in order to determine a complete mind body diagnosis and treatment program. The patient is the benefactor by having “all there is” available to them in their choices to facilitate their healing journey.