Tanya Said:

What is the name of the other school that offers wellness and alternative medicine degree?

We Answered:

Thunderwood college

Philip Said:

What type of higher education is needed to pursue a career in alternative medicine?

We Answered:

Check this site out
http://www.craighitchenstherapies.com
This man does free online naturopathic consultations. He is properly qualified to answer this for you and the program I got when I asked for help was great. I think he may be able to help you out. You even get links to stores etc to obtain what you need. Very cool service.

Wes.

Ray Said:

If alternative medicine does not work, than why are governments around the world tying to outlaw herbs?

We Answered:

Herbs and herbal treatments don't cause as great a percentage of death and serious injury as conventional medicine in the western world, however there certainly is room for improvement and the system is potentially dangerous. Proper regulation giving guarentees of the quality and safety of the product would certainly be very welcome and give quodos and legitimacy to the profession.
It is indeed a multibillion dollar industry.
In the UK there is a move toward proper regulation so that only registered herbalists do consultations and administer the herbs (currently anyone can buy them in a health food store and ask advice on how to take them from a 16 year old shop assistant on the minimum wage).

In New Zealand big pharma have lobied the government and is in the process of stoping any altmed therapists or therapies advertising what they can treat unless there are substantial randomised controlled trials confirming the efficacy of the therapy or claims.

In short this means that herbalists can still sell creams and lotions which people can use to treat _________ but they are not allowed to put on the label what it can be used to treat.

A patient can still have a chat with the herbalist, homeopath, whatever and ask them what remedy would be good and can buy it on their advice but the practitioner would not be allowed to advertise it as being suitable for that.

I'm not sure how this would affect the practice I work in as we have very little advertising and most of our business is from word of mouth. If we had a website (which we don't) we may just have to register it on a domain not using an NZ address.

If this ever goes live it would be interesting to see some test cases going through the courts.
Many conventional medicines haven't had the extensive testing that some of them have and of any drug administered if it was given to a big enough group of people it is likely that a number of them would not find the drug effective for their symptoms. So by the same rational would pharma be allowed to advertise a drug as being an effective treatment for _____ if it didn't work for some of the poeple that used it?

John Said:

What does the term 'alternative medicine' mean?

We Answered:

alterative medicines are things like herbs herbal remmedeys, acupunture, massage and natural things,,

Glenn Said:

What type of higher education is needed to pursue a career in Alternative medicine?

We Answered:

it depends what kind of alternative medicine u want to get into. There is acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, etc.? Do a search on google and find schools near your area, but the important thing is to find out what you want to do first.