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By: Lee Dobbins Alternative medicine and modern medicine have may differences and whose to say which is best?  Today, we expect doctors and medicines to fix whatever ails us instantly and doctors only look at the current physical problem when diagnosing our needs. Alternative or holistic medicine, on the other hand, takes many different factors into consideration before prescribing a cure.  This type of healing has been in use for thousands of years and can be very effective.  It concerns itself  not only with the physical problem, but with the problems of the "whole" self. Alternative medicine includes massage, therapy, herbal tea, herbal medicine and millions of people today still use these types of treatments instead of or in addition to modern medicine.  Different cultures have had their own specific types of alternative medicine and many different types of treatments.  Many of these treatments have survived and are still effective today. ...

By: George Tarr Although mainstream science has yet to recognize magnet therapy as an effective branch of alternative medicine, an increasingly large number of people are beginning to use it as a supplementary treatment for a variety of health-related conditions. Personal testimonials as to the positive effects of magnet therapy are plenty, attesting to the general satisfaction of its practitioners. Those opposed to magnet therapy often argue that positive results are merely a product of the placebo effect - but to that we say, who cares? If the purpose of a therapy is to relieve the sensation of pain, and the therapy achieves that purpose successfully, then the therapy - placebo or not - is an effective one. The goal of this article is not to argue the effectiveness of magnet therapy, for that is another matter in itself. Rather, we would like to provide you with an overview of some of the more common uses of magnet therapy, focusing on the use of magnets as a supplementary treat...