A Conventional Healthcare Approach vs. Eastern Approach

A Conventional Dilemma

In a rapidly changing global society, health––humanity’s most vital asset––fails to be ensured by modern methods of treatment. Conventional medicine has emerged as the dominant and preferred method of remedying illness. However, conventional approaches to treating the droves of diseases that plague humanity falter in their ability to effectively subdue discomfort and disability. Despite the monumental improvements in health, Conventional techniques cannot engineer perfect health or equilibrium. While its methods have proven effective in vanquishing life-threatening diseases that once ravished the globe, Conventional medicine ultimately lacks the ability to provide humanity with treatments that will ensure long-term health and prosperity. The inherent flaws in the Conventional approach to medicine hinders the full recovery of patients, deprives patients of individualized care, and is, at length, potentially detrimental to health.

Conventional medicine, also known as Western medicine, borne out of countless experiments and years of critical analysis, has come to dominate the world of healthcare. It largely focuses on the treatment of disease with short-term and long-term care, primarily through pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, chemical therapies, diagnostics, and infusions. The Conventional philosophy clearly divides the individual from the disease. Western medical approaches are excellent for treating the symptoms of a disease, but that is where they stop. Under conventional orthodox, the cause of disease is confined to the realm of biology and environment, but humans, being complex organisms, are much more than biological machines (“The Limitations of Conventional Medicine”). These machines rout...

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...at patients in a manner that will guarantee lasting health. Conventional medicine’s main weapon in the battle against disease and discomfort––pharmaceuticals––are more often than not either detrimental or unnecessary in the healing process. The entire Conventional system is backwards. The restoration of health should be imperative––not profitability. Concern for the individual should be customary––not infrequent. Methods of treatment and drugs should be strictly benign––not hazardous. Most importantly, if the Conventional medical system is to be advantageous to health, Eastern and alternative practices must be integrated into modern treatment. Until then, Conventional medicine will continue to be plagued by its inherent flaws, and humanity left to struggle to survive while viable solutions are tediously derived from the muddied archives of “failed” therapies.