Traditional medicines is losing its ground in the minds of people, and predictably so - so they are no longer regarded as the panacea therapy by most individuals. Questions now haunt conventional medical practices as the public’s primary concern has shifted to protecting their family’s lives and their own. The attention has turned towards alternative health care - which is gaining reputation in the field of health care and it is becoming the benchmark as conventional health care fails to produce satisfactory results.

Then the TV and other media also support the view that these medications really can alleviate symptoms and prevent various complaints. Furthermore, the public is vulnerable and believes adverts where a completely unknown person promotes a particular drug. Periodicals ads do the same and when a certain drug’s after effects are observed they often seem to be carelessly explained and examined. Such feckless handling of drug promotion often misleads people who start to trust complementary medicines instead. Let us examine the side effect profile of a common hormone replacement therapy drug, called Premarin. While headaches are not unusual, chest pain with resultant mental confusion, failing memory and puffiness of legs and ankles are distinct possibilities.

These are all results of menopause and can be easily controlled by herbal medicines, which is a mixture of cohosh and dong quai, a safe and impressive therapy for women of this age. People in general are more accustomed to the use of allopathic medicines, also called Western healthcare which is geared more towards the ailment and the prescribed drug. Complementary healthcare on the contrary focus more on getting to the root of the ailment and treat the whole body. As a result, people tend to do additional research on a prescribed healthcare for it may present worse conditions than the occurring illness. It is for these side effects that people are eager to look for safer and better health cure options.

Complementary healthcare is today falling into the mainline category of treatment alternatives and even allopathic physicians are not having any qualms about prescribing them to cure several illnesses. The medical profession is starting to grow aware of the positive contributions made to good health by herbs, yoga, acupuncture, massage therapy, and holistic living. It is sincerely hoped that over the years, alternative medications will offer even safer and more efficient medical alternatives for health care.