JUST AS MAINSTREAM MEDICINE has a fairly consistent approach to illness, so does alternative medicine. There are some common principles in alternative medicine . In one form or another, these principles are revisited again and again ,some of them are mention below
1. The Healing Power of Nature
The body has the inherent ability to establish, maintain and restore health. The physician's role is to only to help making someone in rejuvenation process by teaching them the process. In short, give the body the appropriate tools and it will heal itself.
2. Treat the Whole Person
The physician must treat the whole person by taking all of these factors into account. The pleasant functioning of all aspects of the individual is essential to recovery from and prevention of disease and requires a personalized and comprehensive approach to diagnosis and treatment.
3. First Do No Harm
The process of healing includes the generation of symptoms, which are, in fact, an expression of the life force attempting to heal itself. Therapeutic actions should be complementary to and synergistic with this healing process.
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