complimentary medicine

[spud01]

Im at college doing a nursing course. Ive just got an assignment about complimentary medicine and dont really no much about it, can anyone help me to the different kinds there is please and abit about it is. thx

Hello spud. I studied homoeopathy to a professional level but do not practise now. Still I can probably help. Homoeopathy was discovered in the 19th century by Samuel Hahneman, though that spelling is probably wrong, its been a while. Its core proposition is entirely anti-science as we know it, though quantum physics is apparently beginning to get a grip. The principle is that every group of symptoms a person may display has a match somewhere out there in the animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom which can eliminate it. But that something has to be diluted beyond Avogadros number of molecules ie it has to chemically disappear. Its method of action is not totally understood, though one must look to physics, rather than chemistry to get an angle on it. The answer lies on the water molecule and how the original substance can alter it. All water molecules are h2o chemically, yet all snow flakes are different physically. Anyway, its hard to accept unless you've witnessed it, but that's a start for your essay.
Homoeopathy can have a very profound effect on disease of all types. Acupuncture also, and it should be included in your essay. Herbalism is like pharmaceutical medicine except it takes the whole plant and makes a medicine from it. There are also the therapies used for physical probs eg injuries, so osteopathy (and its esoteric sister cranial osteopathy) and chiropractic. There are less medical interventions such as reflexology and aromatherapy. Any good?

I think it's complementary medicine, not complimentary, so if you put that into google, you'll probably get lots of decent sites
lots of american stuff here
nccam.nih.gov/

Ask any proper scientist, ie one who actually understands quantum physics, and they will tell you the idea that homeopathy can be explained by it is twaddle

thx eddiemonsoon it gives me something to start researching on. thx again