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Holistic medicine is health care that comprises all the aspects of one’ s personality to obtain the optimum state of wellness. It encompasses the process of looking into the wholeness of the person including nutritional, physical, environmental, spiritual, lifestyle and social values. Holistic medicine includes virtually all treatments and diagnosis known to achieve balance in personality. It upholds the responsibility of educating one’s self to attain the ideal over-all health and well being.
Holistic medicine and Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine is commonly associated with holistic medicine. By definition, alternative medicine is the medical techniques that are usually not accepted or practiced by conventional medical practitioners. Most alternative medicines are founded to have rooted on unscientific, untested and untraditional principles. Often, these forms of medicine are closely associated with metaphysical components and anti-scientific stands.
Many of these techniques don’t normally have pharmaceutical values like the acupuncture, herbalism, Reiki, homeopathy and the likes. Yet the alternative medicine may also be used in experimental non-drug and drug techniques that are not yet accepted in the medical circles. The future of alternative medicine holds on the potentiality of transforming the “alternative medicine” into conventional medicine since it is now becoming widely appreciated and practiced by medical doctors. In fact, complementary medicine is the term used for alternative medicine practiced in combination with conventional medicine.
Due to these changes in view of the alternative medicine, holistic medicine has become a more preferable option among those who are quite doubtful of the alternative medicine.
Alternative medicine may appeal to metaphysical beliefs and so does the holistic medicine but on milder and more scientifically based approach. Yet the knowledge applied in holistic medicine still cannot hide the fact that it tends to cling to non-scientific knowledge.
Simply put holistic medicine claims to cure and treat the whole person. Holistic medicine stresses out the unification of the mind and the physical body. Holistic medicine practitioners give credence to the belief the man is not a pure physical body with systems and parts that encompass it. Man is also a spiritual being that requires spiritual healing. Holistic medicine concerns itself to the belief of the connection between the spirit and emotions and mind.
The gap between holistic medicine and alternative medicine is closed by the common practice of not using drug treatments and surgeries. They usually employ meditation, herbs, prayers, vitamins and minerals, as well as exotic diets in treating certain ailments.
Holistic Medicine and Conventional Medicine
Allopathy or conventional medicine defines individual health as the non-occurrence of diseases, which appeals to be a negative approach in defining the condition. Holistic medicine on the other hand concerns itself on a person’s absolute state of physical, social, mental and spiritual well-being.
As based on the definition given (that is commonly used among medical practitioners), orthodox medicine remains to deal with one’s susceptibility to diseases instead of the wellness as opposed by holistic medicine. Based on common observations, conventional medicine typically doesn’t apply to healthy individuals. While holistic medicine focuses on the quality of living practiced by people. Sick people normally don’t seek medical attention not until the symptoms of the disease/s are obvious. Thus, there is too little preventive treatment against sickness.
There are great differences between holistic medicine and the conventional type both in the diagnosis and treatments. Most of which are scientifically based. In oppose to this stand, diagnosis in holistic treatment are conceived through the manifestations of body imbalance. These are determined through certain procedures distinctive only to holistic medicine and other related medicinal practices.
People who have already undergone any of these procedures claim that is not bad trying on or all of these practices. Yet individual preferences still have the hand on what will be accepted as the ideal procedure.
Distributed in the US by WMG. “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show from OCMS, available now. Download on iTunes: bit.ly Links: www.facebook.com www.crowmedicine.com “Wagon Wheel” Lyrics: Headed down south to the land of the pines And I’m thumbin’ my way into North Caroline Starin’ up the road Pray to God I see headlights I made it down the coast in seventeen hours Pickin’ me a bouquet of dogwood flowers And I’m a-hopin’ for Raleigh I can see my baby tonight So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel Rock me, mama, any way you feel Hey, mama rock me Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me, mama, like a south-bound train Hey, mama rock me Runnin’ from the cold up in New England I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band My baby plays the guitar I pick a banjo now Oh, the North country winters keep a-gettin’ me now Lost my money playin’ poker so I had to up and leave But I ain’t a-turnin’ back To livin’ that old life no more So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel Rock me, mama, any way you feel Hey, mama rock me Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me, mama, like a south-bound train Hey, mama rock me Walkin’ to the south out of Roanoke I caught a trucker out of Philly Had a nice long toke But he’s a-headed west from the Cumberland Gap To Johnson City, Tennessee And I got to get a move on before the sun I hear my baby callin’ my name And I know that she’s the only one And if I die in Raleigh At least I will die free So rock me, mama, like a wagon …
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Song: sweet.
Video: too many fat, ugly chicks in their underwear.
this song is the shit
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why’s the end cut off???
rate good song, i’ve never heard about them befor this song, love them!!!!!!!
My husband and I danced to this at our wedding. I will never forget how it felt!
@nixuvixu I know eh? I always thought I hated country but Old Crow Medicine Show is just so awesome
I never thought I’d like much in this this genre until I heard these guys.
its not a cover bob dylan and catch wrote this song. bob wrote it and never finished it. and catch finished it called bob an here is the end product
Great cover.
@WillMoshambo Right on Let everyone know BOB wrote it, checkout scott diunbar’s version as well
@sbwmama
heres one guy that thinks your comment is unoriginal and stupid.
@Disabomb ya me too :/
the early cut off gives it that air of mystery… what ever were they gonna say after “heyyy…”?
this real country music , not the cheesy pop music they play on the radio and call country.
just because the person has a southern accent doesn’t make it country music!
anyways it is super amazing!
@grilledcheezsandwich I’m very sorry that you can’t enjoy this.
This is a unpublished Dylan song or at least parts of it.
Old Crow does it great
This is a unpublished Dylan son or at least parts of it.
Old Crow does it great
This is the only country song that I will ever listen to.
@ericsyutubeaccount
so jealous? : )
i love this song , great video
i love you ketch
est song ever,im in love with ketch secor…lol
fuckin jammer
@sbwmama so old…