Medicina alternativa como método para mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas

Abstract

The different types of alternative medicine are not only used to improve health, they are also focused on improving the quality of life of people, obtaining better results when practiced. Objective: Analyze alternative medicines as a method to improve people's quality of life. Method: The research will be carried out in the period between September 2023 - February 2024. To obtain information, it was based on the prism diagram, in which the following stages were followed: 1) literature search 2) evaluation of the articles , 3) synthesis of the articles, and 4) interpretation of the results or discussion. The search was carried out in databases: BVS Ecuador, Scielo, Pubmed, Dialnet and Google academic (manual). The Boolean operators used were “AND” and “OR” and the inclusion criteria corresponded to qualitative and quantitative primary research, full text available online, in any language, publications within the last 5 years. Results: After investigating the benefits of different types of alternative medicine, it was found that people have an improvement in their quality of life after applying any alternative method to improve their well-being and health. Conclusion: We must continue working on studies on alternative medicine so that they can be applied in the future and in this way the quality of life of the population is improved.