Mas Yus Health. A growing number of doctors who do not just rely on pharmaceutical drugs to cure patients, but also complementary therapies such as yoga or meditation. Data in the United States shows, 3 percent of patients there to balance the body and soul therapy because their doctors recommend.
In 2007, 38 percent of Americans use alternative medicine and complementary. Balance of body and soul therapies, such as yoga or tai-chi which began to be known since 2002, is currently experiencing increased popularity to 75 percent.
Once surveyed, was more than 3 percent of the people doing the therapy at the suggestion of his doctor. The study was conducted under the National Health Interview Survey in 2007 to 23,000 households.
The survey showed 6.3 million people use the balance of body and soul therapies based on the recommendation of his doctor and 34.8 percent do so on their own initiative. The group followed the advice that doctors generally have worse health.
"The doctors advise their patients to complementary therapies as a last resort when conventional therapies fail. Therefore, we suspect, if complementary therapies were carried out early, perhaps the result is better," said Dr. Aditi Nerurkar from Harvard Medical School who did the research.
The same tendency can be seen in urban areas in Indonesia. Although not yet recommended doctors, complementary therapies such as yoga or meditation is now more easily found, even included in the program at fitness centers.
According to dr. Surjo Dharmono, Sp.KJ (K) of the Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, a kind of meditation is recommended therapy to the patient not to treat disease. "The goal is to reduce the stress of the illness. When stress is reduced, immune disease will increase so hopefully faster recovery," he said, who met some time ago.
