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 Holistic
Traditional healing {holistic} practices, can be traced back more than 60,000 years.
Are sophisticated systems of integration of mind, body, and spirit.
Ancient healing traditions, as far back as 5,000 years ago in India and China stressed living a healthy way of life in harmony with nature.
Holistic refers to the whole being and represents the intricate connections between body, mind and spirit. These three aspects of being are constant reminders of the precious and yet remarkable nature of life.
Practices
Holistic medicine is actually an approach to life, considers the whole person and how he or she interacts with his or her environment. The main objective is to lift life back into balance, prevent disease, and to work with health challenges.
Emphasizing the connection of mind, body, and spirit. Addresses the root cause of an illness.
See the person as an individual with their own inheritance, previous and present life experiences, diets as well as ones combination of health issues.
The goal is to achieve maximum well being, where everything is functioning the very best that is possible.
Treatments use whole plants or plant products containing active constituents. Along with nutrition and lifestyle education.
Takes into consideration both complementary and conventional therapies.
Holistic treatments do require a time commitment to achieve balanced health.
We all have different constitutions therefore herbs as well as foods can effect each individual differently.
It may be difficult to find a holistic health practitioner in one's area.
It can be difficult for one to change their lifestyle and to accept responsibility for their own health and well being.
Strengths are holistic principles offer practical options to meet the desire for enjoying a high level of vitality and well being.
People accept responsibility for their own level of well being, and everyday choices are used to take charge of one's own health.
Holistic remedies are harvested, grown, and prepared ethically with grace and respect to nature and Mother Earth.
Do as you will, harm none.
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 Allopathic
Modern medicine can trace its roots no more than 350 years into the past, and has been practiced for less than 200 years. Scientific medical advances in western societies during the 20th century had created a dramatic shift in the concept of health. Germs were identified as outside sources causing disease.
Gaining health became a process of killing microscopic invaders with synthesized drugs.
Practices
Allopathic medicine the main objective is to cure or mitigate disease, by focusing on the elimination of physical symptoms.
Conventional doctors look for symptoms, which enable them to diagnose and treat diseases.
See the person as the carrier of a disease.
Their goal is to rid the body of the symptoms.
Treating symptoms by use of refined and isolated plant forms and/or synthetic drugs and/or surgery.
Diagnosis by evaluate the body with history, physical exam and laboratory facts.
The main limitations are ineffective in prevention and curing chronic disease.
Treatments are costly.
Often times the orthodox treatment of the disease is proven to be more harmful than the disease itself.
In addition, many chronic conditions do not respond to scientific medical treatments.
People do not take responsibility for their own health, and believe that they can get away with unhealthy lifestyle choices, and modern medicine will patch them up as dilemmas developed.
Strengths are highly therapeutic in treating both acute and life threatening conditions and injuries.
The processes of making, using, and disposing of refined isolated plant forms, synthetic drugs, genetically modified food, and synthetic personal care products, are substances that do not just vanish into the environment after use; they alter the ecosystem on which all living beings depend on. Thus causing vast devastation to the environment.
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