Hi! My name is Yulia Berry. I became a health researcher because I am allergic to a lot of medicine and always had to look for alternative cures. I tried many of them and found that they really work and do not have side effects.

Since then it became my passion to collect the most interesting natural home remedies, healthy diet plans, and beauty and makeup tips from different countries.

Every remedy in my collection has been tried by real people who had success with it. A part of my huge collection has been published on this website 'Great Home Remedies'.

In September 2007 I released my ebook 'Aloe - Your Miracle Doctor'  where over 150 unique and tested home remedies based on an aloe vera plant were published for the first time.

In April 2008 I published my report Pharmacy In Vegetables where you can find out how to use the science behind the health benefits of vegetables to improve your health, delay aging and cure major diseases.

"An excellent source of home health remedies for our medical audience. ---- Online ACLS Certification"

You feel sick, you go to your doctor, and they prescribe a pill that makes you feel a little less sick then charge you or your insurance a small fortune for doing so. You still feel sick, so you go back and get another pill that may work and pay another small fortune. The cycle continues, you still feel sick, yet the doctor lives comfortably and the pharmaceutical companies boast record profits. It is no small wonder that people get tired of this pattern and decide to take their health into their own hands, utilizing the Internet and all of the resources within to look for a better path to wellness that does not involve expensive drugs that may or may not work.  Thanks to the digital revolution, Alternative Medicine has become a viable treatment option for many people who cannot afford to go to the hospital for every minor ache or pain that occurs, or for whom modern medicine has just failed to work. In the past decade these so called alternative practices, which encompass a wide range of practices including home remedies, yogic exercises, specific diets, aromatherapy and others, have made their way from the fringe to become the epicenter of wellness for many people including many medical professionals who at one time would not go near them. Lets us take a look at what has happened with Alternative medicine in the past a few years, where it is today and   

What has happened in the last 5 years?

During the last five years there has been a significant trend shift of people seeking complementary and alternative forms of medicine to help with their ailments. According to a 2004 government survey 36% of adults in the United States have reported using some form of alternative therapy[1]. Another survey done in 2007 revealed that Americans spend around 34 billion dollars a year on complementary and alternative medicines. While this 34 billion is just a small chunk of the 2.2 trillion dollars that is spent on health care in this country, it does amount to a healthy percentage (11.1%) of the out of pocket costs that people in the United State pay for healthcare[2].

Worldwide, the percentages of people seeking alternative means to help with their ailments are even larger. Thanks to the spread of information technology in the past decade more people now have the ability to make informative decisions about their health and well being without the need of an expensive doctors visit. To many people around the world alternative medicine, folk medicine and home remedies are seen as viable options, if not the only recourse they have in times of illness.

What is happening right now?

Today, the medical establishment which once had the habit of denouncing all things alternative has seen the light and is beginning to take a serious look into integrative health care. Many major medical centers such as Duke University, the Mayo Clinic and the University Of California San Francisco have opened Integrated Medical centers on their campuses[3] and others are quickly following suit.

Medical professionals are seeing the light in part because they realize that there is a market for alternative medicine. The Institute for Alternative Futures reports that in 1990, 33% of Americans reported using some type of alternative approach to health. Almost twenty years later that figure has doubled to 66% of Americans trying out Complementary Alternative approaches to health[4]. Thanks in partly to the Internet and the spread of information, the medical establishment is now opening its arms up to the alternative approach simply because their patients (clients) are demanding that they do so.

This is ironic since most medical professionals twenty or thirty years ago would have ignored these practices in part because it is hard to turn a profit off of them. While a doctor can make a lot of money prescribing a patented drug from a large pharmaceutical to help unclog a patient’s arteries, suggesting a lifestyle change and alternative therapy or prescribing an herbal supplement that will do just as good of a job as the patented drug just did not make any business sense.

What will happen in the next 5 years?

In an article titled “Alternative has gone Mainstream[5] Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, Rustum Roy and Andrew Weil reveal that in order to survive, the medical establishment needs to further embrace alternative medicine. The information revolution has led people on the path to complementary alternative medicines and medical doctors will need to be informed of them if they want to keep their patients.

Chopra and the others point to the fact that in the United States far more is spent (75% of 2 trillion dollars)  on treating preventable diseases (heart disease, diabetes prostate cancer, breast cancer, obesity) than is actually spent on preventing them.

Alternative medical methods, especially ones that focus on diet and lifestyle changes (Yoga, Veganism) are actually already geared toward this goal. Other disciplines such as acupuncture and aromatherapy, once thought as borderline five years ago, are now treated as the future of medicine.