se herbal therapies. Instead of feeling better, I felt increasingly worse, like a spaced out zombie complained Carol Copeland, a former holistic patient who almost lost her life to cancer because her homeopathic physicians were too proud to think they were wrong thus they neglected an ovarian cyst (Copeland 104 & Wekesser 95). Another problem with these unconventional health care alternatives is that they give false relief. What this means is that when someone uses a holistic remedy and then feels relief he tends to credit the remedy. This method does not hold water because most ailments resolve themselves (headache for example). Nevertheless, holistic medicine has strengths. One, it recognizes the psychological, environmental and social aspects of illness. Two, it involves the patient in his own treatment with activities etc... And three, it emphasizes preventive medicine as its base (holistic). Holistic medicine is a practice of health cares that that emphasizes treatment of the entire patientbody, mind and spirit. Homeopathic care, compared to allopathic is expensive. There are no doctors visits or expensive antibiotic prescriptions necessary. This is not to say that doctors are not useful; obviously, if there were a serious injury one should not hesitate to go to a medical (allopathic) doctor (Smith 10). Homeopathy is ideal for the homemaker or mother because it enables her to cure common ailments with herbs that she may have around her home (Smith10). Homeopathy is easy to learn. There are workshops for the lay person that wants to understand holistic medicine. The use of many remedies can be performed by anyone; hence homeopathy does not require a medical degree (Smith 10). It makes sense to try alternative care. Some people feel that doctors are too interested in money and not entirely concerned with the patient. There is an entirely new faith involved in alternative health care. It is a new approach to traditio...
