What is Health, is there an alternative ?
It is a relative term that reflects one’s state of health, to me being a physician in alternative/functional medicine I look at health through a telescope understanding the intricate parts of our physiology to enhance bodily functions through cell’s natural physiology.
The purpose of my practice is to eliminate toxins both internally from inflammation and poor diet and externally from the environmental toxins, to introduce anti-oxidants which fight free radicals and hinder disease progression. To initiate healthy eating habits mainly grain free, dairy free and refined sugar free habits to sustain a healthy state while continually performing treatments through herbal medicines prescriptions, acupuncture and wet cupping to fight inflammation, infection and toxicity in the body which in essence are what causes disease.
Why is Health important
Health is important as it helps us live our lives to the fullest without aches or pains, most people often feel pain everyday and think its normal eg normal to have sinusitis, normal to have joint pain and even further down the track chronic pain from disease, normal to live with this diseased state where conventional medicine has no cure for.
Situations where conventional medicine says ‘idiopathic cause and physiology’ is in translation ‘I don’t know how to treat you, I don’t understand what or how this disease occurred and to treat it, how about you try this drug’ trial and error with your health.
Medications are not a fix, its usually a Band-Aid such as pain medications with over the counter (OTC) drugs such as Panadol, Ibuprofen or prescription only (PO) such as morphine (narcotic) to impede pain signals from the brain to the site of injury. They work to change how your body feels and responds to pain. The importance of pain is to allow the individual to understand there is something wrong that needs fixing. There are often side-effects to these medications. For example, morphine medicines can cause stomach upsets like nausea as well as long term use will be addictive thus withdrawals reactions will occur when off the medications.
In my upcoming blogs I will discuss many classes of pharmaceutical medications, their implications and natural alternatives that work in a similar manner.
My personal mission
My personal mission is to bring people more awareness about health and there are other real options that can stimulate an improved state of health and a better way of life. My mission is not to bad mouth conventional medicine, not to disrespect its principle and its wonderful advancements but to help people recognise its not the only solution for your poor health.
The ideal is to work together as equal physicians trying to find the best solution for the patient.
Farah Alashhab
