Alternative Medicine Or Self-Delusion - Need Proof

Do all these health alternative medicines work? Or is it just a placebo effect which plays such a trick on us?

The followers of alternative medicine criticism ensure us that all these treatment can't be called effective and as usual even are harmful for us. But what would you say about yoga or pilates? Of course, these alternative medicine branches are so popular because of a good promotion of pop culture. But still whether all these people start to follow such kinds of treatment if it doesn't work? Moreover, such alternative medicine as yoga and especially pilates need some will-power. It is not as if you just take a pill and are waiting for an effect. You need to do something. And we all know that the most part of us are very lazy and we will never do something if it doesn't work.

But the above mentioned kinds of treatment are wide-spread now and don't need our "support". The other thing is such alternative medicine as shiatsu, acupuncture, aroma massage and aromatherapy on the whole, self-hypnosis, Ayurveda and many more. On the one hand, the critics of alternative methods assert that one of the main drawbacks of alternative medicine is that no researches can be made, due to which we can confirm that this kind of treatment really works. On the other hand, the same critics tell that according to numerous investigations there is no explanation or confirmation of alternative medicine efficacy. Don't you see some contradiction in these statements? 

As usual, reading different reports concerning health alternative medicine we can find really strange samples which the critics give us. Such as soothing pain just putting some herbal on wound or treating such serious disorders as cystitis or tuberculosis with usual oils and extracts. And all these in very short term. Well, such things really seems not in favor of alternative medicine.

And still there are cases when alternative medicine really help us. Allergy, stresses, asthma, anemia, high blood pressure, arthritis, insomnia, headaches, pains and many more. But as usual all these are psychosomatic diseases. It means that stresses and your attitude to life influence greatly your state of health and cause such disorders. In these cases alternative medicine can really help, though some critics also suppose that it is just a self-delusion. A person believes that he will recover and just do it! So, is there any harm?

But if you want to treat some dangerous illness using alternative medicine it is better for you to consult with your doctor and make sure that such a treatment will be appropriate for you.