Alternative medicine

What is alternative medicine?

Alternative medicine can be defined as any method of treatment does not use drugs and medicines in treatment and alternative medicine is the modern name given to the methods currently used in the West, however, known since antiquity in all societies and communities, Arabic herbs and acupuncture and moxibustion are named can be incorporated into alternative medicine, as well as in China, has spread the use of acupuncture, cupping and herbal.

And problems of alternative medicine that had not been subjected to testing operation of modern medicine, for example, has been applied on animals before human use, and did not study in regular schools but inherit him ancestral healers.


What are the methods of treatment in alternative medicine?

There are hundreds of methods of alternative medicine, but we will mention some of them which can be used in Arabic societies, namely:

• Treatment of the Qur'an and Shariah in Zamzam water.
• Herbal remedies.
• Food therapy: therapy includes honey, black seed, and dietary fiber and fruits or vegetables or vitamins. Etc.
• Cupping.
• Ironing.
• Chinese acupressure.
• Processing of vital relevance.
• Psychological treatment: relaxing sessions include vent and cognitive therapy.
• Physical therapy, heat, water and exercise.
• Treatment suggestion and imagination.
• Optimal treatment.
• Aromatherapy.

Who are the people who use alternative medicine?

Frequently use alternative medicine among patients with chronic diseases.

Alternative medicine is effective in the treatment of diseases?

You can't judge all alternative medicine methods for being effective or not, but we as Muslims we must believe in the therapeutic methods outlined in the Quran and Sunnah as the Koran and treatment roquia, honey and cumin, etc., we also urge doctors and researchers to conduct research to find out how each of these approaches to health and disease