furore

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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

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

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Alternative MedicineComplementary Medicine

• Non Conventional Medicine

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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)

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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

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• 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

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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

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Group 3a

• Ayurvedic medicine
• Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM
• Long-established systems of healthcare

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Group 3b

• Crystal therapy
• Iridology
• Radionics
• Dowsing
• Kinesiology
• Any credible evidence ?

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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

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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,

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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 ?

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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)

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

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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

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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