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Article: Examining Holistic Medicine.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1990
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Examining Holistic Medicine
Billions of dollars are spent each year on orthodox medical treatment that cannot produce cures and often causes pain as troublesome as the disease itself. So, many sufferers seek out practitioners of alternatives to standard medical treatment. Among them are practitioners concerned with holistic medicine.
Billions of dollars are also paid to those who treat illness by methods sometimes effective, too often dubious. The holistic medicine movement initially projects a reasonable desire for preventive health care and a sincere concern for behavioral, environmental, and social causes of illness. Unfortunately, many "healers" in ...