Holistic medicine also offers hope for people who have run out of options in standard medicine. When something is pronounced fatal and hopeless by Western doctors holistic ones will try to cure the person or at least make them feel better. People will often try to do anything to avoid this, and so will find an alternative in holistic medicine. People also turn to holistic medicine because as the name implies, holistic medicine works on treating the whole person. People who feel standard medicine is only dealing with the immediate problem will sometimes feel unhappy, frustrated, or dissatisfied.
Holistic medicine offers a much more encompassing and complete method of healing.
Holistic medicine also looks at the whole picture in terms of practitioners thinking about the side effects of treatments and medications and trying to avoid them. Holistic medicine also deals with the whole picture in terms of how your body works together as a whole, especially looking at the way your mind, body, and spirit work together. A major idea in holistic medicine is the mind's control over the body. It may seem odd to say your mind controls your health but most people realize that it does at least in some way, Almost everyone has gotten nauseous before a test or presentation, sweaty palms when they were nervous, or something along those lines. Her life story and her research fascinated me very much.