The most common approach by doctors in treating anxiety and panic attacks is to use benzodiazepine tranquilizers or tricyclic antidepressants.
Certainly these drugs can cause a side effects that are concerning and affect your health in different ways.
Also, tranquilizers do carry a high risk of addiction.
If that occurs, withdrawal can be very difficult and could even make some cases of anxiety worse.
For this reason many anxiety sufferers turn to alternatives for anxiety treatment.
Here's a look at some of the natural therapies that you should consider.
Botanical Medicine There are several herbal tonics that can be used for treating anxiety.
These work on many levels to balance the body.
Certain herbs are sedative or relaxant and without exception these are herbs that have purple or blue blossoms.
These also serve as blood purifiers so they contribute in many different ways to overall health as a tonic too.
Physical Medicine In treating anxiety, bodywork is always a wise approach for the relaxing qualities it gives and for helping establish equilibrium to your system.
Bodywork helps counteract stress and provides you with a valuable tool to handle day to day issues and situations that set the stage for your anxiety to arise.
Supplements Vitamin and mineral therapy and amino acid therapy are possible alternatives for anxiety treatment.
Some individuals benefit greatly; others only mildly.
Whether or not this is something for you to consider would depend on test results to measure levels of necessary nutrients and those usually deficient in anxiety sufferers.
Nutrition The use of diet as a therapy is very basic foundation of alternative medicine.
Many common conditions can be treated by examining your diet and pinpointing weaknesses, poor quality food choices, and foods that will benefit or harm your specific condition.
This is very true for anxiety and panic attacks.
Certain foods and substances can seriously adversely affect you and actually encourage your anxiety levels.
Anxiety can lead to more serious health issues if it is not managed and overcome.
Health and disease can be looked at as points on a measure.
Optimal health is at the starting point, disease, and of course death, at the very end.
Many people drift from the optimal point to disease as they go through life.
While this is seen as normal in our society, it is not normal for animals or for those few who live an optimal life with no pollution, minimal stress, plenty of exercise and superior nutrition.
Death is most definitely inevitable but progressive and debilitating illness is not.
Natural healing approaches should be your treatment of choice in addressing your anxiety.
Not only is it possible, it has been used successfully for decades by many societies.