Re: [cancercured] Holistic Medicine and 'alternative' medicine

I was for a long time confused by the terms 'holistic' and 'alternative' ie did they mean the same thing? And what then would we call approaches that seemed 'alternative' that were not 'holistic'.

The truth, as I came to see it, is that there is really no such thing as 'alternative medicine' that was defined by what it was i.e. as having a coherent set of underlying principles. It is really defined by its enemies, by what it is not - i.e. it is not mainstream.

Holistic medicine is therefore part of the alternative world but not the whole of it. To give an example. Bloodroot herb is used to attack and kill cancerous calls. This is alternative but there is nothing 'holistic' about it.

Jonathan

Jonathan Chamberlain

www.fightingcancer.com

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