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furore
  • Many of todays complementary therapies are
    rooted in ancient traditions that intuitively
    understood the need to maintain balance and
    harmony with our minds, bodies and the natural
    world.
  • the ceaseless rush to modernise
  • Medical Apartheid

2
  • Your future sovereign
  • Peter Fisher
  • Director of the Royal Homeopathic Hospital
  • Admitted not to know how it works

3
Alternative MedicineComplementary Medicine
  • Non Conventional Medicine

4
  • Complementary
  • In addition to conventional you may prescribe
  • AD tai chi or massage
  • Alternative
  • Used instead of conventional
  • Homeopath
  • naturopath

5
Integrative Medicine/CAM Complementary and
Alternative medicine
  • UK survey
  • gt75 of the public want it
  • gt45 of registered doctors have referred
  • gt70 of hospital doctors
  • gt93 of GP
  • 85 of med students, 76 of GPs and 69 of
    hospitals doctors - NHS available
  • 20of GP - 12 hospital drs - 58 of nurses
    practice

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Attractions
  • Time and Continuity
  • Personality and personal experience
  • Patient involvement and choice
  • Hope
  • Touch
  • Dealing with ill defined symptoms
  • Making sense of illness
  • Spiritual and existential concerns

7
Concerns
  • Safety and competence
  • Guilt
  • Solely responsible for your own health
  • Denial
  • Colluding
  • Blame
  • External causes
  • Pollution, vaccinations, conventional drugs
  • Financial risk
  • Social factors
  • Middle to high socioeconomic status
  • Effects of poverty underplayed

8
  • good quality info - effectiveness - safety -
    costs - training - research
  • Authorities slow to act

9
GMC
  • It is open for any GP to employ a complementary
    therapist/therapy to offer NHS treatment PROVIDED
    the GP/doctor retains clinical responsibility and
    accountability!!
  • By 2050 full implementation prediction

10
Principles
  • Prevention good health
  • Your body has the ability to heal itself
  • Practitioners facilitators to encourage your
    natural health processes
  • Learning and healing go hand in hand
  • Guidance as teachers/mentors while your body and
    spirit do the rest
  • Holistic care
  • Interconnectedness (body-mind-spirit-world)

11
Broad categories
  • Healing/Alternative medical systems
  • Complete set of their own fundamental
    views/theories/practices
  • Ayurveda - Homeopathy - Naturopathy - Ancient
    Medicines
  • Mind-Body connections
  • Strengthen mind and body communication/enhance
    minds influence over body
  • Meditation - Prayer - Yoga - Hypnosis
  • Biologically-based therapies/dietery supplements
    and herbal remedies
  • Herbs - Foods - Vitamines

12
  • Manipulation and touch/body based methods
  • Chiropractice - Osteopathy - Massage -
    Reflexology
  • Energy therapies
  • Unblock/balance energy flows
  • Biofield
  • Reiki - Qi gong - Therapeutic touch
  • Bioelectromagnetic based therapies
  • Magnet - Polar - Light

13
CNHCComplementary and Natural Healthcare Council
  • To be launched in April 2008
  • By Princes Foundation for Integrated Health, FIH
  • Credible robust voluntary independent regulatory
    structure
  • Consumers confidence and safety
  • Fitness to practice - certain requirements
  • NHS - Dept of Health White Paper

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www.nhsdirectory.org/
  • House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ,
    6th report on CAM
  • 3 separate groups
  • GP? - PCT?
  • PAL, Patient Advice and Liaison Co-orinator or
    Lay member of your PCT
  • Difficulties on obtaining CAM via NHS

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Group OneThe big 5
  • Osteopathy
  • Chiropractic
  • Regulated by Acts of Parliament
  • Acupuncture
  • Herbal Medicine
  • Homeopathy
  • Each individual diagnostic approach

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Group Two
  • Aromatherapy
  • Alexander technique
  • Body work therapies
  • Massage
  • Counselling
  • Stress therapy
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Reflexology
  • Shiatsu
  • Meditation and healing
  • complementary
  • Not purporting diagnostic skills

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Group three
  • Purporting to offer diagnostic info treatment
  • Indifferent to Science
  • Philosophical
  • 2 sub-groups

18
Group 3a
  • Ayurvedic medicine
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM
  • Long-established systems of healthcare

19
Group 3b
  • Crystal therapy
  • Iridology
  • Radionics
  • Dowsing
  • Kinesiology
  • Any credible evidence ?

20
Osteopathy
  • Andrew Taylor Stiller (US physician)
  • 1874
  • Physical manipulation
  • Gentle large movements (low velocity - large
    amplitude)
  • Greenman Muscle-Energy technique
  • Bend joint to point of resistance - hold - relax
    - bend again but further -
  • Cranio-sacral therapy
  • skull bones put in line with rhythmic pulsations
    of brainspine
  • Today often same conventional techniques

21
Chiropractic
  • David Daniel Palmer - 1895
  • Cured mans deafness by back manipulation
  • Spinal manipulation
  • Rapid short thrusts (high velocity - low
    amplitude)
  • loosening vertebrae
  • subluxated vertebrae impedes nerve outflow -
    disease - so needs repopping
  • Back-, neck pains, headaches, colds,

22
Acupuncture
  • Shan dynasty - 1000 BC
  • Yin Yang balance (TCM)
  • 14 meridians channeling surface with internal
    organs
  • Through them flows QI vital energy
  • Needles on acupuncture points removes imbalances
    and blockages of the Qi
  • Auricular acupuncture
  • French Dr Paul Nogier - 1957 - Vietnam
  • Entire body mapped into the ear (inverted fetus)
  • addiction
  • Conventional just endorphins ?

23
Homeopathy
  • Dr Samuel Christian Hahnemann - 1755
  • Greek Omio same Pathos suffer
  • Phenomenally diluted substances with a healing
    energy fields that causes certain symptoms in a
    healthy person can cure an ailing person with
    similar symptoms (vaccines-like)
  • Three laws
  • Like cure like
  • Law of infinitesimals (diluting makes powerful)
  • Conventional doses is toxic
  • Law of Chronic disease (conventional medicine
    drives disease deep - culpable)

24
  • Symptom picture matches a potion
  • Royal London Homeopathic Hospital merged with
    UCLH in April 2002
  • Government commitment to integrate
  • Better care for NHS patients

25
  • Aromatherapy
  • Using the fragrant essential oils of herbs by
    inhalation, by mouth or topical
  • Alexander technique
  • Habits are stopped, refined or well-formed
    through awareness of how thinking is expressed in
    movements by own empirical guided study of
    yourself
  • Reflexology
  • The whole body is reflected in the foot - foot
    massage heals/deblocks that organ part
  • Developed by an ENT Dr W Fitzgerald -1913

26
  • Shiatsu
  • Massage using fingers and palm to detect and to
    promptly correct the imbalances of the body
    (Japanese Ki - Chinese Qi)
  • Also preventive by stimulating immune system and
    natural healing power
  • Deep tissue massage
  • Naturopathy
  • Using non-invasive, non-synthetic, natural
    remedies (though use of conventional diagnostics
    like imaging)

27
  • Radionics
  • By dowsing (water witching or divining), by
    focusing through your own senses-thoughts, you
    detect imbalances in subtle energy fields
    around a body and promptly transmit healing
    energy/thoughts because we are all One Unity
    connected.
  • Reiki
  • Japanese Life-force energy - hand laying,
  • Healing Qi by holding hands in certain positions
    over affected body part
  • Kinesiology
  • Science of human movements to manage -
    rehabilitate - prevent disorders

28
Ayurveda
  • 2nd - 4th century BC India
  • Holistic (herbal/diet/massage/meditation/spiritual
    ity/cleansing of nasal passages/)
  • Links with TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine)
  • 3 primal forces (tridosha) - 5 elements
  • VATA space air - movements
  • PITTA fire water - digestion, metabolism
  • KAPHA earth water - bodys structures
  • Each persons is dominated by 1 or 2 doshas
  • You can be a Pitta-Kapha

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  • Each one consists of PROPER BALANCE of
  • 20 attributes
  • 5 subdoshas
  • 7 tissues
  • 4 agni
  • 14 bodily systems
  • Disease improper/disturbed balance
  • excess Vata lead to arthritis, anxiety and
    fatigue
  • excess Kapha - obesity/diabetes

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  • Treatment aims to promote and maintain balance in
    order to prevent or, when necessary, cure disease
  • For instance by DIET, 1 of the primary methods
  • Each has unique food diet (what good is for one
    may be bad for another) with own seasonal
    variations and own optimal ways to cook/prepare
    it
  • Excess Vata avoid raw vegetables - eat nuts and
    seeds
  • Herbs
  • Yoga
  • Shirodhara
  • pouring of warm oil on your 3rd eye on forehead

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ARE YOU A BELIEVER?
  • Thank You!!
  • Amen
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