The Holistic Hoax and The Holistic Gems

For every scientifically verified medicine there are at least five cures and therapies which aren’t verified or even particularly medical. These holistic treatments have the potential to be very good for patients but they can also be very damaging or actually do nothing worth-while at all, as such they should be treated with caution and a little cynicism. Saying this, if you believed passionately that a treatment is going to work then often it will. The human mind is a potent tool and you can and sometimes will yourself well without even realising it. This is why placebos can show positive impacts on patients, even when they’re nothing more than cornflower and good will.

Some treatments can be harmful and they shouldn’t be advertised as curative. Arthritis patients may pay considerable amounts of money on a holistic cure which they’ve seen online believing it will do them some good or at least ease their symptoms. Oft times these cures do next to nothing and occasionally they make the symptoms worse or create new ones. It’s advisable to use caution and try and find other people you know or trust who’ve taken the same remedies. If it works for others it’s more likely to work for you but it’s not definite. We’re all different and we all react to treatments differently.

Researchers have recently started to look at all the holistic treatments for arthritis which are currently on offer; they’re testing them and finally putting them under some scientific scrutiny. What’s been surprising is that some have shown potent and persistent benefits and they’re not the ones you’d think. The most effective treatment appears to be acupuncture which scientists have been trying but failing to explain.

As more and more treatments get tested properly hopefully we’ll see the harmful ones fall away and we’ll be left with some wonderfully effective holistic remedies which patients can partake in to enhance their more medical procedures.