{"id":2570,"date":"2009-06-07T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/alternative-medicine-infiltrates-conventional-medicine.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:19:24","slug":"alternative-medicine-infiltrates-conventional-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Medicine Infiltrates Conventional Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The more important question is … why?<\/p>\n

What is it that conventional medicine is lacking, such that alternative medicine can step in and offer a solution?<\/p>\n

We can talk all day about the merits of acupunction versus crystals versus chiropractic versus aromatherapy or homeopathy … but conventional medicine is losing market-share to alternative therapies.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

AP IMPACT: Alternative medicine goes mainstream
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
At one of the nation’s top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient’s bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.<\/p>\n

They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible energy fields. The anesthesia chief, Dr. Richard Dutton, calls it “mystical mumbo jumbo.” Still, he’s a fan.<\/p>\n

It’s self-hypnosis” that can help patients relax, he said. “If you tell yourself you have less pain, you actually do have less pain.”<\/p>\n

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