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Wednesday, 21 January 2009 |
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By Michael Hehn
 Alternative health therapy is often used instead of conventional treatment. New lines of treatment are seen to be combining mainstream medicine with alternative treatment when it comes to healing. The alternative therapies are known to provide certain types of services that aren't available within conventional medicine. When we talk of alternative therapies, they could include a whole lot of healing techniques like naturopathy, homeopathy, massages, faith healing, etc. It is the belief that these therapies will have some curative effect on the disease that leads to the use of therapies over conventional medicine.
Alternative health therapies can help you feel better and improve your quality of life and improve your general health to give you a sense of control. One feels calmer when pressure, stress, insomnia, nervousness and despair are reduced. They reduce some of the side effects which are normally noticed in the usual cancer treatments and also help in reducing some of the symptoms like poor appetite, tiredness, pain, sickness, diarrhea, constipation and breathlessness.
A combination of alternative health therapies and conventional medicine has been noticed to be very effective in |
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Monday, 19 January 2009 |
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By Ben Needles
 It is rightly said that laughter is good for health. It burns calories, stretches muscles, and produces a energy booster. Many laugh therapists believe that laughter can make people healthier. When you laugh, you change physiologically. You stretch muscles throughout your face and body, your blood pressure and pulse goes up, and you start breathing faster, giving more oxygen to the tissues.
Many people believe that laughter is a mild workout and can offer some advantages that we get from a normal workout. Many doctors say that effects of exercise and laughter are very similar. When you combine laughter and movement such as waving your arms, it can stimulate your heart rate. The most convincing benefit is that laughter has the ability to reduce the impact of pain. It has also been proved that people who laugh more have lesser chances of falling sick.
Acupressure focuses on relieving discomfort and pain, hence health and acupressure are connected .Acupressure is a healing art that makes use of fingers to press the potent points on your body. Acupressure therapy helps to improve blood circulation |
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