Debate about alternative medicine?

can someone give me questions to ask in this debate. i will be either supporting the use of alternative medicine or against it. i dont know yet. what are some really hard unanswerable kind of questions for both sides

The differences are 180, traditional medicine only addresses the symptoms while alternative medicine addresses the cause of disease, at least most of them do. You should ask what are the causes of disease, find the cause then you can solve the problem. Einstein once said '' when you fully understand the problem the solution becomes obvious''. There are only four causes for disease, Toxins, Nutritional deficiencies, Stress, Electromagnetic Radiation. The US government even states that most diseases are causes by nutritional deficiencies, and yet the doctors are not taught to solve nutritional deficiencies, they are taught to mask the problem with drugs, never solving the true problem.

The American Medical Association is mostly funded by the drug companies, that right there is an extreme unholy alliance. I am not completely putting down traditional medicine, It is very effective in crisis management like accidents, it only becomes an issue when profits ''share holders'' become more important then patients. All the inventions and devices that cure disease are either banned or bought by the FDA or companies owned by the drug companies. And it isn't just alternative medicine its alternative energy sources to, just watch who killed the electric car and you find that they couldn't make enough profits to sustain a highly efficient car, it all comes down to money. Know one can make any profit if people never get sick, if all the people in America were healthy the drug companies would be out of business, there is a legal obligation to treat disease and never cure disease, thats the bottom line.

There cannot be a debate about this topic without someone brining up the FDA - Food and Drug Administration, and how it has never, and will never approve alternative medicines, dietary supplements, etc. This is a ton of contraversy over the FDA, and how money, funding, government grants and research, the medical industry, and the pharmaceutical industry are all in cohoots with one another, and in the end, its all about the money, not the people. For thousands and maybe millions of years, people have been using natural, alternative medicines to cure and treat everyday illnesses, and even deadly diseases, yet the government has never approved one of them. Hmmmmm, makes you think, right. The biggest reason is this. The government would have no way of regulating, taxing, and making money off of most of these products. How can they regulate the use of honey and lemon and ginger to treat the common cold? They can't. But, they CAN introduce laws, regulations and taxes, through the medical and pharmaceutical drug companies, and rake in billions of dollars anually from prescription drugs, insurance companies, etc. There is a really good book called "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About", that goes into great detail how this crooked system works.

You can use the fact that many hospitals are adopting CAM therapy that incorporates holistic with medicine
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You could ask why are pharmaceuticals have so many class action lawsuits against them.
Conventional drugs
Chantix, Celebrex, Vioxx,

http://vioxxlawsuit.lawinfo.com/

http://celebrexlawsuit.lawinfo.com/

http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overvie...

http://reliableanswers.com/med/lawsuits_...

http://www.lawcash.com/lawsuits/legal/pr...

All medical doctors take the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm"
but invasive medical procedures do do harm for the sake of attacking the disease/tumor/etc.
example: radiating a tumor kills cells around it too. chemotherapy is basically shooting enough poison to kill a cancer but stopping just before you die. Even surgery is invasive, painful and has lots of risks. Plus, with tests getting more detailed, more people are being diagnosed for everything, and therefore getting more invasive treatments before nature has time and chance to heal them.

Many alternative medicines really "do no harm." rather thana attacking the disease violently (which causes casualties) they work to boost the immune system or correct imbalances so that the first cause of the disease is addressed, not just cutting out the symptoms like doctors do.

hope that gives you something to think about

I agree with everyone above. You can't really blame your doctor, because they usually have a very full schedule, and were taught in medical school that "prescription" medications were the answer to all problems. Unless your doctor is 'open' to alternative health, it would be difficult for them to conceive that nature is the best alternative. That's not what they were taught.

Now, med students are 'required' to study natural solutions as opposed to synthetic or chemical reproductions (yeah!).

On the other hand, though, pharmaceutical medications are able to help with symptoms of a disease, but I believe that if you start by helping your body health itself naturally, you're less likely to need the complications or side effects that chemicals will provide.

My vote is for alternative, natural, non-preservative supplements to our diets. We're simply not getting the nutrition from food that was normal 30 years ago.

it is inconceivable to me that a few answers here will determine which side you choose to vigorously defend or attack. Better you should be a spectator

Alternative medicine has been around for 1000's of years, conventional medicine less than 300 years and has killed more people in that short time. Sad what the FDA and Greed will do.