The Role of a Holistic Health Practitioner As an Alternative to Conventional Health Care Providers
The Role of a Holistic Healer Practitioner, as an alternative to a Conventional Health Care Provider (CHCP), is one of education, responsibility and great caring.
Incorporating the practices and education from the world of conventional health care, the holistic practitioner goes far beyond traditional medical treatment.
The Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) addresses all of the components of the patient: mind and body with spirit, comprehensively.
Conventional health care concentrates on the clinical aspects of repairing the body; specifically, how to repair the "machinery" of the body, without considering the essence of the patient, commonly referred to as the soul.
While conventional medicine is extremely successful, it does have holes in its teachings.
The HHP does not simply address the "nuts and bolts" of the human body; the HHP recognizes the element of compassion and care for the person, the soul.
To better illustrate the point: CHCP's will treat an accident victim by determining and setting the broken bones, sewing the lacerations, and topically treating and dressing the burns.
All of these practices are important and necessary for healing the flesh and bones part of the patient.
A HHP will also perform those duties, in addition to treating the personality of the victim.
Victims who suffer a crisis situation may be facing extreme physical agony, emotional sorrow and fear, even the prospect of death.
No matter what the situation, but especially if the condition is serious, patients need to feel an inner strength for recovery.
A HHP understands that without engaging the patient, without allowing him to make a conscious decision to heal, he may not recover.
Additionally, HHP incorporate nontraditional techniques into their health care plans.
Many of these practices, which may not recognized by CHCP may include the integration of such holistic practices such as: meditation, visualization, chanting, massage, energy therapies, homeopathy, acupuncture/chiropractic therapies, naturopathy, just to name a few.
Although conventional science and medicine are not able to explain the how part as to why these therapies are successful, recent clinical studies fully agree that (for whatever reason they cannot explain) these methods do work.
A HHP not only has to be educated, if only in the basics, of human biology, but these alternative medical practices as well.
In a recent article published in July 20131 a study was completed, discussing Effects of acupuncture for cancer pain and quality of life.
The patients who suffered the pain of cancer, received acupuncture treatments.
This illustrates how complicated the HHP's role can be, not only having to be educated in traditional medicine (re: in this case, treating a patient with cancer), but also having to understand alternative medicine and treatments (acupuncture).
The Montana State University published an article2 a confirming the importance of integrating both alternative medicine with conventional practices.
The researchers emphasized the importance of health literacy, both on the part of traditional and alternative.
References for further reading: American Holistic Medical Association: http://www.
holisticmedicine.
org Article regarding attitudes of doctors about alternative medicine: http://www.
ncbi.
nlm.
nih.
gov/pubmed/23912438:
Incorporating the practices and education from the world of conventional health care, the holistic practitioner goes far beyond traditional medical treatment.
The Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) addresses all of the components of the patient: mind and body with spirit, comprehensively.
Conventional health care concentrates on the clinical aspects of repairing the body; specifically, how to repair the "machinery" of the body, without considering the essence of the patient, commonly referred to as the soul.
While conventional medicine is extremely successful, it does have holes in its teachings.
The HHP does not simply address the "nuts and bolts" of the human body; the HHP recognizes the element of compassion and care for the person, the soul.
To better illustrate the point: CHCP's will treat an accident victim by determining and setting the broken bones, sewing the lacerations, and topically treating and dressing the burns.
All of these practices are important and necessary for healing the flesh and bones part of the patient.
A HHP will also perform those duties, in addition to treating the personality of the victim.
Victims who suffer a crisis situation may be facing extreme physical agony, emotional sorrow and fear, even the prospect of death.
No matter what the situation, but especially if the condition is serious, patients need to feel an inner strength for recovery.
A HHP understands that without engaging the patient, without allowing him to make a conscious decision to heal, he may not recover.
Additionally, HHP incorporate nontraditional techniques into their health care plans.
Many of these practices, which may not recognized by CHCP may include the integration of such holistic practices such as: meditation, visualization, chanting, massage, energy therapies, homeopathy, acupuncture/chiropractic therapies, naturopathy, just to name a few.
Although conventional science and medicine are not able to explain the how part as to why these therapies are successful, recent clinical studies fully agree that (for whatever reason they cannot explain) these methods do work.
A HHP not only has to be educated, if only in the basics, of human biology, but these alternative medical practices as well.
In a recent article published in July 20131 a study was completed, discussing Effects of acupuncture for cancer pain and quality of life.
The patients who suffered the pain of cancer, received acupuncture treatments.
This illustrates how complicated the HHP's role can be, not only having to be educated in traditional medicine (re: in this case, treating a patient with cancer), but also having to understand alternative medicine and treatments (acupuncture).
The Montana State University published an article2 a confirming the importance of integrating both alternative medicine with conventional practices.
The researchers emphasized the importance of health literacy, both on the part of traditional and alternative.
References for further reading: American Holistic Medical Association: http://www.
holisticmedicine.
org Article regarding attitudes of doctors about alternative medicine: http://www.
ncbi.
nlm.
nih.
gov/pubmed/23912438:
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