Holistic Medicine: Healing of the Whole

Holistic care is very old but it has just started to be used along side conventional treatments and medicine. About 5,000 years ago in India and China there began an entirely new take on medicine and the treatment of illnesses. Holism was introduced by Christiaan Smuts in 1926. The first National Conference on Holistic Health was held in 1975. To understand Holistic Health you need to know what it is, how it interacts with conventional treatments and how patients react to this method of treatment.
Holistic health is the thought that you can not treat an illness or ailment with just medication or surgery but with healing the person. There is the physical part of a person and the conventional treatments help this part but there are also the emotional, mental and spiritual parts of a person too. There are many different ways to achieve this; a few are diet, acupuncture, herbal medications and yoga. Some people believe that this method of treatment doesn’t help because there is no scientific proof to back up any of the holistic methods. When coupled with conventional methods holistic treatments can improve the overall wellbeing of a patient.
When combined with more traditional methods of treatment holistic health can greatly improve the life of a person. Holistic health can be preventing things from happening or they can be used to treat or help treat an ailment. People use holistic treatment and may not think about it, drinking tea is one thing that can help improve health and is commonly done. When treating diseases it is important to think of the patient as a person who needs help not only with there physical problems but with their mental, emotional and even spiritual problems at the same time.
5,000 years ago the East found a way of treating people as a whole and now in America this thought is just pushing into the main stream media. When it comes to treating people if it is done on an over all perspective it works better. One can not just heal a person and leave their other parts in a mess. With out knowing what holistic care is there is no way of showing patients it.