FSU embraces alternative medicine

It’s why we gargle with salt water to alleviate the pain of a sore throat instead of going straight to the doctor’s office, or why we try the heating pad on a sore back before rushing in to our local physical therapist.

It’s natural and it’s alternative medicine. 
Over the last several decades contemporary Western society has started emphasizing concepts of Eastern spiritual and physical practices, often as a mechanism of dealing with the daily hustle and bustle of modern life.
Now, practices such as acupuncture, meditation, aromatherapy, medicinal herbs and even yoga face a certain “otherness” when viewed in adjacent with traditional Western medicine.

Ignoring the fundamental differences in practice, the goal of medicine, East or West, is always the same—to heal. 
As a means to this end, the use of alternative medicine is thriving. 
Expanding so far into popular culture as to even grace the cover of Time Magazine’s Oct. 23 edition.

COMENT:

This news was posted on October 5, 2012, in The New York Times, and it was written by William Bred.

This is an opinion column, where a journalism gives his points of view on alternative medicine which is a kind of technique that people naturally use, like when we try the heating pad on a sore back before rushing in to a physical therapist . So he states that this is a kind of fashion, which has been around for as long. But this has become important when there have been scientific studies that have proven effective about it.

Alternative medicine began in China and it has since been studied by many doctors, but all have reach to a common goal: to achieve healing of the patient in the best way possible. In Time magazine, is an article that refers to this story, in which Brent Bauer discussed the limiting power of the practice’s very name and the effects such a label may have on our connotative interpretation of it referring to the occasional ache and pain, in both mind and body, fix themselves without the intervention of a nurse or physician. Even if the pain is continuous must act and not ignore.

So from my point of view is that it's just as important to have a healthy mind as it is to have a healthy body. Anything, Such as yoga, meditation or aromatherapy, that helps relax the mind, I think is really great.