I just got reminded of what karthick said.. Its depends on patients belief. In ayurvedic text, there is a suggestion that a vaithiyar should not start treatment unless the patient believes him..

Similarly, a naturopathy doctor in Theni District, has more than two thousand case studies, of treating ciritical illness, like diabetes, cancer etc even without medicine.. He showed me the photos, how he cured a diabetic person who had serious injury in his leg.. Since these kind of positive results doesnt get noticed, the general public is not aware of it..

For AIDS, many people are taking siddha medicines, rather than allopathic.. i saw a traditional siddha doctor, challenging in public, through TV’s and Paper ADs that any one can prove his claim false.. he is now more now..

As rupika said.. Allopathic is life saving in many circumstances.. I personally, suffered from killing stomach pain, 4 times in the past.. and nothing but allopathic injections brought me back to normal.. But, after that, I pursued with precautionary and ayurvedic treatments, and got considerable results..

Priya.. i referred the details of zantac, at the following site..
http://www.drugs.com/zantac.html

Its a brand name for ranitidine.. The side effects mentioned in the above URL is more alarming than the supposed cure..

I’ve known many people who valiantly fought to survive, but they collapsed because the treatment wasn’t effective. If all it took for people to get well is the will to get well, we don’t need doctors.

A person’s belief – Placebo Effect – kicks in only for those that are susceptible. They could chew a button, thinking they were given aspirin & hey presto – their headache would be gone. Even for such impressionable people, placebo effect doesn’t work all the time. So, while a positive mental attitude & the will to survive will help – undergoing a proven, effective treatment is even more important.

On the whole, exciting times ahead.

Perhaps you’ll be kind enough to write a post on nano-medicine?

In my opinion…I feel people should take any therapy as long one is comfortable with it..I mean one thing is certain…a person can get well if we wants to get well…so i mean recovery is based on belief and trust one has on the doctor and medicine as well…

Some people say Yoga is healing..so people believe on “Vepalle Adikarthe ” .. I guess faith is an important thing here …

Stemcell therapy is not only the astonishing development in medicine, nanomedicine is another oceanous subject getting explored! Scientists are trying to model proteins using nanorobots with medicines with haptics! The nanorobots coated/encapsulated with medicines will go into the body and with haptic technology, it will reach the destination/target where it has to deliver the medicine and start releasing the medicine, over a period of time (to be very precise, sustained & targeted delivery system using nanorobots with medicine)!

Haptic interfaces are used in medical simulation, that might be useful in minimally invasive procedures (laparoscopy), and remote surgery using teleoperators. In future, a surgeon can operate remotely, s/he can even do multiple surgeries at a time using Haptic interfaces.