Half the global population uses some form of alternative medicine annually and here are some of the reasons why.
1. CAM gives patients choices. You as the patient can feel empowered because you have other alternative or complementary choices available to you that can go along with your prescribed medications and treatments. We make sure it’s safe.
2. You as the patient partner with the health practitioner it’s a two-way relationship. Gone are the days when the doctor is the authoritative voice alone. Your voice matters and this partnership creates a way where we can share your health decisions. You can feel supported and in this way make the difficult lifestyle changes that may be needed.
3. You are heard with more time offered during the Complementary Medicine consultations. So your health story can be analysed to get to the root cause of your symptoms.
4. CAM methods of treatment allow for stress reduction for example acupuncture increases feelings of relaxation. Once we can reduce the stress load on our bodies we feel much better overall.
5. Developing positive health self-confidence goes a long way towards making health shifts. Telling yourself, “I am healthy, I feel well, I sleep well, I am a healthy person”. Opens up new choices you can make rather than living in self-defeating mindsets with low health confidence and ill health.
6. Fewer side effects from herbal and homeopathic medicines. This gives you peace of mind that some pharmaceutical medications may be replaced if tolerated with far fewer bad side effects. Sleeping tablets are a good example as we work on stress, sleep hygiene, and herbal replacements we can reduce or eliminate sleeping tablets altogether, which are associated with memory issues.
7. In the long run Complementary Medicine is cost-effective by being preventative medicine. It may require an initial investment but thereafter you and your family see doctors much less frequently.