Alternative Medicine In Science

Alternative Medicine in Science

Alternative medicine is a healing system that has been transcending since the existence of our ancestors. Its effectiveness is so much that today it plays a very important role in the process of recovery of a person with poor health status, and when we talk about health status not only refers to physical health but also to spiritual, mental, mentaland social since the approaches to this method of healing cover the human being as a biopsychosocial being due to the benefits that have alternative healing techniques to pharmacotherapy.

The globalization and advancement of science have achieved countless advances in terms of pharmacological treatments to cure diseases, however alternative medicine remains part of people’s lives and remains a recovery option for those who still believe intraditional. And it is that alternative medicine is part of the culture and history of a person, they used our grandparents and grandparents of our grandparents. Roots and beliefs are not easy to release. As the history of mankind has progressed, thus advanced the use of alternative medicine going from being synonymous with using plants and infusions to more complex healing techniques such as homeopathy, acupuncture, dance therapy, and music therapy.

This is why, understanding the complexity of the human being and its history, respecting its beliefs and ideals, it is currently sought to achieve the complete immersion of alternative medicine as part of the treatments and alternatives for the recovery of patients within the variousHospital care levels.

Nursing professionals perform an important role in the recovery process of sick patients and in health prevention and promotion of the healthy patient. Taking care of the person, family, community and the environment being aware that these are a complex unit with different needs, beliefs and traditions is part of the functions and skills of the professional model of the nurse. The nursing professional also deals with diagnosing and treating their patients according to individual and collective responses to the demonstrations of the health-disease process, applying the logic of the nursing care process as a scientific method of the profession;Taking into account actions for promotion, prevention, healing and rehabilitation to guarantee physical, mental and social well -being. It also uses teaching, administrative and research processes to guarantee the quality and optimization of nursing services, in the search for excellence.

The nursing care process is an essential part of the patient’s recovery, all the activities that the nursing professional performs to improve the health status of his patient are immersed, respecting him and treating him with dignity without any social or cultural discrimination. This is why, in this essay we seek to analyze the importance of alternative medicine in people who come to a hospital institution or health center and to what extent it contributes in the nursing care process for the recovery of patients.