Alternative Health Panaceas

Everyone has at least the doubt about the pharmaceutical industry producing medications that cure illness, most of the drugs that are available for most diseases merely alleviate the symptoms but do not cure the disease. Case in point I have acute gastritis and in order to function without problems I have to take one capsule of Lansoprazol every day, it neutralizes the discomfort, but I have been taking it for years and the problem, gastritis, is still there.

And like this, there are pills for insomnia, they let you sleep when you take it but the insomnia remains, for erectile dysfunction there are pills that make you work but only when you take them, and so on, most drugs and medicines are only temporary relief from the disease.

So some people look for alternative methods, like botanical medicines, supplements and other such medicines, like for example saw palmetto for prostate disease, milk thistle for the liver, unaccountable pills for colon cleansing as garbage stored there is supposedly the main reason for disease, melatonin for insomnia, and other wonder medicines like arginine, ginseng, noni, sour sop etc. I have tried a few of these and frankly I have not seen that they work any better than pharmaceutical drugs.

That leads us to other routes that people have taken to try to improve their health or to cure illnesses, looking into metaphysical, spiritual or other quite unique activities to keep or restore their health. I will talk about three that I have read quite a lot about.

The first I will talk about is supposed to be the secret exercises made by Tibetan monks to maintain their health and reach extremely long life spans, you can find this in an ebook that is called Eye of Revelation. This book is a about a Brit who lives for a long time in Tibet and comes back with these exercises that are supposed to have your chakras vibrating at the correct rate and details the five exercises for achieving this, this link takes you to an online version in PDF. Well I tried these exercises for a while and after not seeing any palpable results I quit doing them as I am anything but constant and willing to persevere. So I really don't know if the exercises work, but exercise is always good so I guess nothing bad can come from it, and you might get muscles that you never work in better shape.

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Now I will talk about crystal, sounds and magnetic healing, crystal healing is the art of using crystals in the healing process using all kinds of crystals like amethysts, opals, quartz, tiger eye, pyrite etc. Many people swear by this I have never tried this particular system so I can not talk about it objectively, personally I think lying against the trunk of a tree would have the same effect maybe better, but I really don’t know. Sound therapy is based on the idea that certain notes create a therapeutic response in the body and certain notes are for certain illnesses and they also have calming effects, and I know that music does calm (some music) as for healing I don’t know, another therapy I have never tried.

Then we go with magnet therapy, the energy that magnets give off is used to heal and prevent disease, this one I have tried, I had a pair of magnetic rings and also a balance bracelet, both were given to me, the balance I tried for a few days and I got nothing, as for the rings you are supposed to sleep with them and you will get their healing effects, but frankly all I got was a few nights I couldn’t sleep because I just couldn’t resist bringing the magnets together with negative and positive sides and of course trying to get them to stick when they had the same side which is practically impossible, so I’d spend a whole night doing this and wouldn’t sleep for even a minute. So in fact they were harming my body, so magnets might be good for some people, not for me, I just can’t help playing with things like this.

And finally I will get to another supposed Panacea, hydrogen peroxide and ozone. The idea behind this is that when cells are well oxygenated any harmful bacteria, pathogens, cancer cells, viruses etc. die because they cannot live in an oxygen rich environment. You can have ozone treatment which is available in several forms one of them being that a pint of blood is extracted from your body, this blood is treated with ozone and then re introduced into the body, the blood interacting with rest of the blood and oxygenating all of it, thus creating a heavily oxygenated environment. There are other ways for getting ozone treatment but you get the idea.

The other way to receive big amounts of extra oxygen is with hydrogen peroxide, but it has to be, according to what I read, 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide as it is the only one you can use for this treatment, it is supposed to act just like ozone and is extremely cheap, which is why big pharma doesn't want people to know about its healing properties. Is this true? Again I don't know I tried it once, but actually I used the normal 3% that is available in drug stores and the last e book I read said this one is no good. The problem is in Honduras I have never heard of 35% food grade peroxide so I can't try it, therefore I don't know if it works.

Of course there is also meditation, another I have tried but not followed up on, I can't concentrate for more than a few minutes, much less leave my mind blank, praying, living in nature and so many others, I guess some people do get good results from these alternative therapies, especially terminally ill patients, I mean if you know you don't have much time there is nothing lost and maybe much gained by trying these out.