Essays on Alternative Medicine

Perhaps you’ve seen the ads for it on TV or Facebook, or maybe a friend of yours swears by it; acupuncture. Acupuncture is a traditional form of medicine primarily used for pain relief that has been in practice for thousands of years. Although many people...

Bloodstone and Carnelian stone are both components of crystal therapy. It dates back to centuries ago when Egyptians and ancient healers used healing stones as some medical treatments for people with ailments, injuries or disorders. Healing stones have properties to help improve any type of...

Over many centuries the miraculous results and captivating ideology surrounding the practice of acupuncture has fascinated the world. Classified as a part of Complementary and Alternative medicine (treatments or practices which are not a part of a country’s mainstream healthcare system), the therapy is generally...

“Trauma can be understood as an event that creates difficulty for the individual to cope with whether the event that caused the experience was purposeful or accidental. While people do find amazing ways to cope with circumstances that are overwhelming, neurobiology tells us how trauma...

Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), as the “unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage” (Merskey & Bogduk, 1994, p. 210).  According to Bond and Simpson...

The history of acupuncture goes back to more than 2,500 years ago as a part of traditional Chinese medicine. It is not only used in Chinese communities around the world these days but has become a global treatment method. In this method, special needles are...

This paper discusses the phenomenon that is precision medicine, which relies on tailoring the medicine to each patient’s needs. Precision medicine takes into account the molecular and genetic history of patients when tailoring the medication for them. This approach to health can benefit humans in...

The idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change, a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place. In today’s world, progress is developing at a very fast rate. We see scientific progress...

A stem cell is something unique that can change for what the human body needs, that is why many countries around the world have invested in stem cells such as the US, China, South Korea and many more. Many people think that stem cell research...

A single human body has roughly around 200 different types of cells which are organised into organs and tissues to provide certain required functions around the body such as reproduction. There are various ways where stem cell has potential use for example, through research and...