In the past few years, the whole “all-natural” movement has been gaining ground as evidenced by aggressive marketing of alternative health products from weight-loss diet pills to cold medications all marked as “derived from nature.” Of late, Western medicine is trying its best to join the alternative health bandwagon by researching on ancient herbal remedies that have been in use in more primitive cultures for centuries. This is also the reason for the sudden increase of natural pain relief medications.

Western medical science is still studying the host of ingredients and combinations that make up these natural pain relief, before any major investment is made by pharmaceutical companies, production-wise. There (more…)

Modern medicine can accomplish things that people mere decades ago considered to be firmly in the “hands of God.” There are ways to treat cancer, delay what once would have been inevitable deaths, and help people endure great pain. However, as wondrous as modern, conventional medicine is, there are just some things it can’t fix. For some illnesses and people, the prognosis under conventional medicine can be grim and fraught with lifelong pain. Yet, that prognosis does not always have to be the same when one goes for natural pain relief under an alternative system, such as naturopathy.

Naturopathy is a medical philosophy and system that is considered an alternative to modern medicine, in the same way that Ayurveda and Traditional (more…)