Holistic medicine is a discipline that views a person a whole, encompassing a overall analysis of physical, emotional, environmental, nutritional, spiritual, social and lifestyle values. It embodies all known modes of diagnosis and treatment including surgery and drugs as a last resort if no alternative is available.

The emphasis of holistic medicine is on educating and making a person responsible for personal efforts towards attainment of proper balance and well-being. Holistic medicine embraces alternative medicine, complementary medicine and natural healing.

Leukemia, characterized by an unusual unexplained increase of blood cells, usually white blood cells, is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. In actual fact, leukemia covers a wide range of diseases. What causes the condition remains unknown. In conventional medicine, treatment is generally through medication, radiation therapy if required, or in an extreme situation, bone marrow transplant.

Alternative healers view leukemia, like any other condition, as an integral part of the individual. To be healed, the patient must attain a state of mental and spiritual peace that resolves the body’s unhealthy imbalances. Alternative medicine extends guidance to the body’s intrinsic natural defense mechanisms through lifestyle change. Such change generally envisages nutrition, exercise, spiritual and mental health.

Success in leukemia with holistic medicine treatment is viewed with skepticism by clinical medicine practitioners. Because such treatment has no scientific basis, they equate success with that achieved by a placebo. Many patients use holistic and conventional medicine simultaneously in treating leukemia. Alternative complementary therapies are particularly effective in treating nausea, stress, pain and other symptoms of leukemia and side effects associated with chemotherapy or radiation.

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