COMPLIMENTARY AND ALTERNATE MEDICINE

Complimentary and Alternate Medicine

COMPLIMENTARY AND ALTERNATE MEDICINE

Hippocrates 25 centuries ago defined health as that state in which an individual is in harmony with itself and with the environment, and urged that everything necessarily affect the mind affects the body, and already in 1946 in New York, WHO defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social, not merely the absence of disease.

The first doctors were concerned then to heal body and soul, and have been so far in Oriental Medicine, Indian and shaman, but gradually these features were lost in Western medicine.

As research provides the principles of homeopathy, like cures like, use the lowest dose of the medicine, stimulation of the remedies and perhaps his most important contribution is the conceptualization of the patient as a whole human being (body, mind and emotion).

Acupuncture is an ancient method of therapy that

originated in China more than 2,000 years ago.

It consists of inserting solid, hair-thin needles

through the skin at very specific sites to achieve

a cure of a disease or to relieve pain. Although

it is not part of conventional medical treatment

in most of the Western world, a 1998 consensus

statement released by the National Institutes of

Health (NIH) in the United States said evidence clearly

shows acupuncture helps relieve many types of chronic

and acute pain; nausea and vomiting associated chemotherapy,

anaesthesia, and pregnancy; and alters immune

system functions (Dupler, 2011, 77).

Medical acupuncture is the country-specific non-drug treatment, is a brilliant gem in the World Medical, widely used in various diseases. As a method of external treatment, acupuncture is the body surface of the organs by stimulating the points, meridians to stimulate the body to adjust the role of the meridian system to regulate the internal organs functional activity, regulate blood rise and fall, so as to achieve the purpose of treating disease. Meridian, as human life, an integrated control system functions in acupuncture therapy has played a leading role. Acupuncture is one of the methods commonly used in cancer prevention, cancer prevention and control research in the use of acupuncture acquired a significant effect, causing people, especially scientists, scholars attach great importance.

In China, the use of acupuncture treatment of cancer

and similar syndromes has a long history. As early as

in the "Yellow Emperor" s, there is the record of

acupuncture treatment of cancer patients. Such

as the "Miraculous Pivot of nine-pin" in which the

"eight winds among the passengers on the meridian,

as Liu Bing who also, it is worth governance needle,

will Ningbo front of their body and their end, so that

cancer can be spilled hot bleeding disease dried up.

"The earliest extant monograph on acupuncture,

"Acupuncture and B by", also describes the methods

used acupuncture to treat some with cancer or cancer of similar syndromes. Such as: "eating no less than the diaphragm plug unreasonable, evil in the epigastria, and the next in Shangwan the suppression of (the barbed Shangwan points), the next wan is scattered away ...