That’s is what I call real far sightedness! Only a genius mind capable of leaving an enormous legacy of inventions for the benefit of the entire humanity can fathom the faraway future with such accuracy! You must have heard the terms symptomatic treatment or treatment for symptomatic relief many a times from practitioners of conventional medicine. Well, they precisely sum up the essence of conventional medicine – treatment of the symptoms or rather, treatment of the disease on the basis of the symptoms. This makes conventional medicine quite a trial-and-error matter as many illnesses may exhibit similar symptoms in their most primary stages! For instance, a headache may be triggered by migraine, viral infection or constipation and in such a case, when you administer an aspirin or any pain killer to give relief from headache, you tend to ignore the underlying cause! The headache might disappear for sometime but what if the root cause that still remains, brewing inside the body takes on more malefic proportions?

Well, the answer comes in the form of holistic health care techniques and medicine which includes an array of alternative healing techniques that focus on curing the root cause of the ailment rather than treating the symptoms. This is either done by attacking the root cause of illness directly or by making certain adjustments within the physiological functions and regulating the bodily humors such that the body itself fights off the infection and heals itself. There are a large number and multitudes of different types of holistic medicine and alternative healing techniques that focus on correcting the root cause of an illness by manipulating various physiological functions and regulating the proportion of the body’s internal enzymes and the flow of mental and biological energies to restore health and promote wellness. While some of these types are anatomy-specific healing methods, there are other holistic medicinal disciplines that deal with correcting the constitutional ills of the entire body.

Various Types of Holistic Medicine

While many of us may have some idea about acupuncture, acupressure, aromatherapy, reiki, ayurveda, yoga and reflexology, there remains a huge number of alternative and holistic healing methods and disciplines that we have never even heard of, leave alone having any idea about! While most of these are sub disciplines of the aforementioned families of holistic medicine, there are others that are independent and are healing techniques having treatment methods and curative specifics of their own. » Read more: Types of Holistic Medicine