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In one of the major hospitals in United States, a nurse walks around the bed of a patient, waving his arms as if attempting to frighten evil spirits. Another woman in a bowl rubbed with a quartz rod, emitting sounds that are mixed with the beep of the monitors and the hiss of a respirator that kept alive the individual.

Both have a reiki session, a therapy which is believed to help the patient with invisible energy fields. The anesthesiologist Richard Dutton said it was “mystical tales”, but uses them.

“It autohiponotizan” and that helps to relax patients, he said. “If you tell yourself you do not hurt so much, then you do not hurt much.”

Another way to heal

Alternative medicines are reaching the mainstream and are increasingly accepted by physicians formal, insurers and hospitals like the University of Maryland.

Appeals to people and herbal therapies to treat and sofocones from sleep problems to cancer and cardiac problems. Tends to mistrust the government and pharmaceutical companies, and preferred medications considered safe and more natural.

Often, however, is not what they receive. The attitude of the government and powerful sectors that make consumers vulnerable to misleading advertising and failed products.

Food supplements do not need to prove they are safe or effective to be sold. Some contain natural elements that you want to avoid, such as lead and arsenic. Other things that can interfere with a consumer, such as birth control pills.

“Herbs are medicines that can be good or bad reactions, said Bruce Silverglade of the consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Many of these products are not scores of small operations, craft, but manufactured by major laboratories. Its ingredients and country of origin is a mystery to consumers. Are sold using techniques that manipulate the feelings, like a car or a garment.

It exaggerated the benefits of therapies that can help in certain conditions, such as acupuncture.

Open your eyes

We analyzed dozens of studies and interviewed more than 100 people to see that there is an underground system that operates in daylight, with principles other than those of traditional medicine and millions of people have a blind faith in these products.

- Major hospitals increasingly turn to alternative therapies. Many offer treatments that relieve stress, like meditation, yoga and massage, but some offer treatments with little scientific support to seriously ill patients and vulnerable.

- Some medical schools give lessons to future doctors about alternative therapies and cures, sometimes paid by government funds. The idea is to educate them about treatments that people prefer to make sound recommendations and objective. More than one institution, however, has strong ties with people who practice or promote alternative methods.

- Insurers are enabling firms to offer alternative medicine offer their products and services directly to members. I even recommend buying supplements in certain Internet sites.

Be careful what you consume

There are herbal supplements that can affect health. A surprising number of products which are not advertised on their labels and may contain harmful substances such as lead or disguised versions of medications that require a prescription.

“In tests, one in four supplements have a problem,” said Tod Cooperman, president of ConsumerLab.com, an independent firm that analyzes such products.

Even when the components of medicine are not dangerous, the money spent on products whose benefit is not proven can not be a good investment, as well as risky.

There are cancer patients who miss their only opportunity to fight evil in betting on alternative medicine. People with clogged arteries may suffer cardiac arrest. Children can suffer injuries from the use of therapies whose effectiveness has not been checked, followed by parents who do not rely on traditional medicine.

Traditional medicines also have their problems and many have been taken out of circulation is found that the adverse reactions. These medicines, however, are subject to regulatory systems and are closely watched by surveillance bodies.

The monitoring of alternative medicine is much more limited.

Nevertheless, the use of alternative medicines and dietary supplements like vitamins, minerals and herbs, is widespread.

“We are annoyed when people say that we are a marginal resource,” said Steven Mister, president of the Council for Responsible Nutrition. He added that the supplements are a “reassurance” when people do not eat well.

Some are widely recommended by doctors, such as vitamins for pregnant women and calcium for adult women who can get osteoporosis. It is believed that such uses are safe.

Several studies indicate that a deficiency of vitamins can produce disease, but it is unclear whether consumption of supplements to solve the problem. Some studies suggest that it may cause inconvenience, according to Jeffrey White, director of the department of medicine of the National Cancer Institute.

Medical Alternatives

White, however, believes that alternative medicine offers good opportunities. ” As does Josephine Briggs, director of the National Center for Alternative Medicine, an agency created by Congress.

“Most patients do not receive satisfactory treatment too. If we were successful and effective treatments will probably not need these other strategies,” he said.

That is why Mitchell Gaynor, a cancer specialist from the Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York, monitors nutrition and offers meditation and relaxation techniques in their treatments.

“There are people who think that ‘chemotherapy is pure poison”‘ said Gaynor, who tells the patient not think so. “Cancer is an evil that develops over decades, so that one can not say that will heal by changing the diet or doing meditation. Must be treated with conventional medicine.”

Many people buy supplements to treat minor problems such as sleep problems, sofocones caused by menopause, memory loss, excessive weight and sexual disorders.

Kathy Allen, dietitian of the Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, said that people should be skeptical about the term “natural.”

He stated that the supplements have not been shown to be safe and provide benefits. If you are wondering if you are willing to consume traditional medicine in those conditions, “most of us would say no,” he said.

“When the label says’ natural ‘, it is believed that it can not hurt and that is simply not true,” he said.

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The historian, Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor Honoris Causa 19 times, Miguel Leon-Portilla, considered that the rescue of the Codex De la Cruz-Badiane, who until 1990 was in the Vatican, “is valuable, among other things, it contains remedies for sick today. ”

After taking part in the digital presentation of the Mexican document, the author of “The vision of the vanquished,” the paper said: “It is a manuscript prepared patiently and with a broad knowledge on herbal, by Martin de la Cruz, a Indian doctor Santiago Tlatelolco. ”

Herbal Legacy

The expert noted that the indigenous cultures that wisdom was equal to that in those years the conquistadors came to America, and fortunately came at the hands of the king of Spain, who knew how to cultivate and disseminate such knowledge.

The professor also pointed out that the codex contains a comprehensive cookbook physician herbal methods, profusely illustrated with over 100 images. “This content is the cure for a disease that I suffered, the angina pectoris,” also said the author of “Philosophy nahuatl” as replacement.

“Martin de la Cruz identified, diagnosed and found a cure for this terrible disease, as well as for gout and tired,” he added pointing to the same studied many ills afflicting the society of his time, many existing between communities in the modern world, he added.

Therefore, this document said that since Mexico’s indigenous “is an immense source of knowledge of the past used to the pharmacology of this time, spring is right to take Mexico to provide cures ills afflicting the world.”

However, Leon-Portilla regretted that the digital version of the “Codex De la Cruz-Badiane” is not the complete document. “This edition is great, but I would have liked to include the full CD,” he said.

The codex

Earlier, in the auditorium “Jaime Torres Bodet” National Museum of Anthropology, where Miguel Leon-Portilla was invited, it was reported that the Codex De la Cruz-Badiane, considered the first medical book in the New World established in the sixteenth century was digitized and published on compact disc.

Following this technological process, the document was kept in a vault and under strict security measures in the reserved fund of the National Library of Anthropology and History, because it is a treasure to arouse more interest in studying indigenous medicine.

Dr. Leon-Portilla considered the manuscript as one of five historical sources for understanding the uses and customs of the ancient indigenous peoples around medical treatments. The historian was part of the team that requested the Holy See to the delivery of the codex.

Homeopathic remedies (which used highly diluted drugs made from natural ingredients) are considered by many doctors as remedies ineffective and mostly harmless, because they contain tiny amounts of drugs.

But a study by the AP of the reports of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, according to its acronym in English) on the reactions that cause revealed that more than 800 ingredients used in homeopathic remedies may have been involved in various health problems last year, from vomiting to suicide attempts.

It was found that:

- Generally homeopathic active ingredients are diluted to the point representing a millionth or less of the compound, but there are cases where concentrations are higher.

- The FDA has strict limits on alcohol use in medicines, especially medicines for children, but those limits do not cover homeopathic remedies. There syrups that are more than 10% alcohol, when the National Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than 5%.

- The center of alternative medicine from the National Institute of Health suspended his studies of homeopathic remedies, “because there is no evidence to suggest that serve” as the center director, Josephine Briggs.

- The homeopathic remedies include at least 20 prescription ingredients in conventional medicine. Some homeopathic medicines are derived from diseased tissues. Many are used in powerful poisons such as arsenic.

Homeopathic medicine

Homeopathy was the creation of an ingenious (and for some, too imaginative) mind of the German physician and chemist Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700s. He experienced the same remedies and became convinced that if an ingredient produces symptoms in a healthy person, combat diseases that produce similar symptoms. It also developed the theory that if the ingredients are diluted to extreme tiny, even impossible to trace, such a low concentration, paradoxically, makes them more effective.

To this day the homeopaths offer explanations somewhat mystical tone and speak of “vital forces” and “energy healing”. Employing arcane ingredients as nux vomica and Arsenicum album, “giving the impression that the remedies were prepared in turkeys a druid priest.

Point of view against

The pharmacist Albert Lavender, a former deputy director of the department oversees the FDA that the labels of the remedies, homeopathy holds that it is a “big fraud”.

“Most of the time does not cause harm to the consumer, but if your pocket is suffering,” he said. He added that “no sense” to require that their labels explain what they seek, as in United States, do not try anything because, he said.

“Often, the only active ingredient is alcohol. People do not know and are excited. But the therapeutic effect is more or less the same as a martini,” said Jerry Avorn, an expert in pharmaceuticals in the Harvard Medical School .

Challenging Homeopathy

You can raise questions about the dangers of various homeopathic remedies.

Health authorities revealed this week that Zicam, a homeopathic remedy against the common cold, can override the olfactory sense of a person.

Reports of reactions to drugs developed by the FDA identified at least 843 homeopathic ingredients that could have generated negative reactions between October 2007 and September 2008. It is impossible to determine how many were taken in low homeopathic concentrations, but apparently some people were and there were numerous reactions, including pain in the joints and muscles, according to reports from doctors, consumers and others.

Self

While many homeopathic remedies are mostly sugar or alcohol, believers swear that these medicines work.

Amanda Rafferty, of Haverhill, took bloody canadensis, a medicine made from a toxic herb to treat migraine attacks that were present once a month. Said that, after taking the remedy, did not return to feel a migraine for a year.

He admits that he did not know that these remedies were not inspected by the government but not considered serious because it relies too much on the regulatory system.

Your homeopath, Begabati Lennihan, Cambridge, tries headaches, colds, digestive problems, depression and behavioral problems. Like other homeopaths, Lennihan examines not only the symptoms but the patient’s personality, their favorite foods and even dreaming. Admits, however, that if the problem occurs in x-ray, “is going to be harder to resolve it with homeopathy.”

It is not uncommon for patients to make their own diagnoses and prescribe homeopathic remedies themselves. The homoeopath Ahmed Currim, Connecticut, said that suspending the practice because such people “do not know what you’re doing.”

Non-prescription remedies are big business and many homeopathic medicines provide combat symptoms so vague that it is almost impossible to say specifically what evils.

For example, a homeopathic ingredient, lithium carbonate, is used in conventional medicine as a psychiatric drug. In homeopathy, it is presented as an antidote “rheumatic pains in the region of the heart muscle paralytic seizure, cerebral congestion, insomnia and epilepsy.”

Historically, politicians in our country have used all sorts of tricks to gain political advantage to his opponents or the population, especially in election years (like this), and this has developed into the DNA of the gene with a Mexican high – “suspicious.”

It may be that the reason that a good number of Mexicans think that the epidemic of influenza, initially known as swine, but is now known as A (H1N1), is a lie to distract from some major issues for the country.

The combination of suspicion, an election year and an epidemic caused by an enemy we do not see, fired the imagination of some people who recently set up in various rumors and conspiracy theories (which are broadcast online).

Obviously the problem is not immune to a certain policy, which is why I ask this question:

Can the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO), the Mexican authorities, the Canadian, U.S., Spanish , French, German, Egyptian, British, Japanese, Argentinian and Cuban, among others, will agree to distract the Mexican people for a small group of politicians get any benefit?

Of course I would reply: “It is not for the benefit of Mexican politicians. This is an international conspiracy to boost the world economy (now in crisis) and how wars are no longer running, using a disease. ”

The panic buying of antiviral, anti-mask and in pharmacies, or canned food and water in supermarkets could be the proof of this.

However, something that takes no account of the conspiracy theory is that the absence of sufficient supply of products is broken by the continuous consumption. Because if the government asks people to stay home to avoid infection, hundreds of companies, including pharmaceuticals, could not produce enough medicines, foods and other items that are required to market and boost the economy.

What would you say the service sector and tourism? ¿Accelerates the economy have closed cinema complexes and restaurants? And the salaries that many employers do not want to pay for contingency? ¿The government to raise taxes right now?

Turning to the conspiracy theory of a local character, one that says that politicians want to distract the Mexican people to take some advantage over their opponents or the public, would be crazy to create a psychosis world that sooner or later be discovered and that in the long run, it would discredit our country and all ahuyentaría foreign investment (though with our politicians, anything is possible).

On the other hand, if everything was a hoax from the federal government, the leader of the people: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, would already be saying that everything is a “complex”.

Beyond speculation, the reality is that the WHO has stepped up to Phase 5, the alert level for the epidemiologic influenza outbreak that began in Mexico and has presented cases in United States, Canada, New Zealand, Germany and Spain, among other countries. So we must take this epidemic seriously and look after our health.

What are the recommendations?
See a doctor if there is: Fever greater than 38 ° C, frequent and intense cough, headache, poor appetite, nasal congestion and general malaise.

To prevent infection: Avoid crowded places and mass events. Stay away from people who have respiratory illnesses. Wash hands frequently with soap and water. No hello or to kiss your hand. Do not share food, cups or cutlery. Ventilate and allow passage of the sun at home, office and all enclosed places. Keep covered with clean kitchen and bathroom, door handles and railings, as well as toys, telephones and use of common objects.