The most common objection to alternative medicine from conventional physicians is that it is "not proven."
What doctors mean by this is that alternative medicine has not been rigorously tested the way pharmaceutical drugs have been.
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Doing a clinical trial like this is expensive. You need highly qualified researchers, a good research methodology, a bunch of patients to test, and a long period of time to observe results.
But the doctors are wrong.
Alternative medicine has been rigorously tested in a multitude of ways.
That's right. Chiropractic adjustments have been tested. Massage has been tested. Acupuncture. Yoga. Reiki. Reflexology. Herbs. Vitamin therapy. You name the alternative therapy, it's been tested Cheap New Jersey Devils Hoodies , probably many times.
Why haven't you heard about these results? Well, without going into some conspiracy theory, I can only say that there is no single corporation who benefits from having these studies published widely, so they are generally kept quiet and known only to people who read the medical journals where they were originally published.
Here are a couple of examples that are really amazing.
A study published in the medical journal Multiple Sclerosis ? Clinical and Laboratory Research in August 2003, researchers evaluated the effects of reflexology on relieving the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
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Both of these studies were "gold standard" trials, that is, they were randomized double-blind controlled trials.
And in both cases, there were NO side effects of the treatments.
These two studies are two of hundreds that have been conducted around the world, many of them proving conclusively that alternative medicine works.
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