Holistic Medicine Vs Conventional Medicine

Over recent years, there have been many debates over whether holistic or conventional medicine is the more reliable type of treatment for a patient. Holistic medicine, also called Naturopathy, is the art and science of treating the whole person: body, mind, and soul. Some different holistic practices are acupuncture, chiropractic care, herbal and vitamin therapy, and massage therapy. Conventional medicine, also called Allopathic medicine, is the practice of using drugs, radiation, or surgery to treat symptoms and diseases. Each side of the debate has evidence related to the specific treatment which supports their views on the issues that contradicts the other side, such as statistics and different techniques. Holistic medicine is usually used …show more content…
Dementia is “a group of symptoms that affect memory, thinking, and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily functioning”. It is a disease that has no cure. To prolong the disease, drugs are prescribed for it like Aricept and Exelon. These medications work to balance the chemicals within the body and brain, and to increase neurological pathways within the brain. People that are diagnosed can use some holistic medicines like vitamin supplements. Other therapies that can be used is music or art therapy to calm the mind. The difference between using a holistic medication or a conventional medication is that holistic medications do not prolong the patient’s life, and, in most cases, it doesn’t work to keep the symptoms away. It just works to calm and destress the person diagnosed. Conventional medicine is the best route to take for a mental disease since it helps prolong the disease, and keeps the symptoms to a …show more content…
The neonatal unit is the part of the hospital that deals with illful infants. Conventional medicine is the ideal type of medicine to use in this field because most babies admitted into the NICU, or neonatal intensive care unit, are newborns. They have not had the time to build up their immune system, so they are susceptible to multiple illnesses. Natalie Ruby, a WHNP, or women health nurse practitioner, agrees that conventional medicine is the best form of medicine to use in this type of situation. Most babies admitted into the NICU are usually admitted because of premature birth, a respiratory difficulty, or aspiration pneumonia. In her experience, “most parents will want anything and everything done whether reasonable or not to save their baby.” Without modern medicine used, most infants will not survive what they are diagnosed with. Short stories from Babble.com show first hand accounts of parents who had to deal with their newborn baby in the NICU. Some show to what their child looks like withs numerous wires and tubes that consume their baby. They talk about their feelings during the time period of which their child is in the NICU. They hated that their baby was in the NICU, and it killed them looking at them so small and sick, but they also recognized that without the use of conventional medicine, their baby would’ve never survived the premature