Visiting a doctor, people expect that they will recipe for medicine. Nevertheless, doctors gradually begin not only to prescribe a bunch of tablets, but also to appoint other, much more unconventional things. These strange recipes can produce instead or in addition to drugs.
And yes, it's all real. All recipes below were really discharged by real doctors and approved by the Ministry of Health.
1. Beer "Guinness"
"Guinness) has always been helpful, because it is a unique beer has antioxidant compounds that can prevent heart attacks. It also contains iron - half-liter Guinness contain 3 percent of the daily need of an adult in the gland (19 mg). That is why Guinness was prescribed pregnant women and patients who were recovered after surgery. Due to the iron content in beer, Irish blood donors also receive a free Guinness bank immediately after blood. And this is not all. Guinness also contains phytoestrogen, which improves mental abilities, prevents obesity and strengthens the bone. It is not surprising that Australian doctors prescribed to take Guinness to one of the patients in 2017. The patient was Dave Conway, Irishman from Dublin, who was in the hospital after falling from a seven-story building in Brisbane, Australia. He fell on his feet and so crowded them that he had transferred 26 operations, including amputation of both legs below the knee. Conway learned to use a wheelchair when doctors discharged him a recipe on half a liter "Guinness" per day.2. Games
Surely, everyone will agree that in our days, children play not so much as a few decades ago. It is probably due to the fact that many parents mistakenly believe that the game in the fresh air is just a possibility for children to run and get dirty. In addition, many children today prefer to watch TV or sit at the computer (telephone), and not play. Doctors say that the lack of active games is making harm to the health of the child, because the game is important for training, developing creativity, reduce stress and ensuring mental and comprehensive development. That is why the American Pediatric Academy (AAP) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended to doctors regularly prescribe games in the fresh air. AAP and CDC recommend at least one hour of the game per day and another hour of any other physical activity.
3. Cycling
If someone is too lazy to ride a bike, it is clearly worth talking to his doctor. For example, doctors in Cardiff (United Kingdom) and Boston (USA) are allowed to prescribe cycling to patients who do not get enough exercises or need weight loss. Doctors issue a recipe with a membership card of a bicycle exchange program. Doctors of any city are allowed to write recipes for cycling for 30 minutes a day for their patients.
4. Watching birds and walks on the beach
In 2018, the National Health Service of Shetland (Scotland) announced his plans to allow the doctors to prescribe birds to patients with chronic and exhaustive diseases, such as diabetes, mental illness and heart disease. Doctors can also write a recipe for a patient for a walk around the beach. Patients who received such a recipe can count on a tour organized by the Royal Birds Protection Society. They will also receive calendars and lists of pedestrian routes indicating birds and plants that they can meet along the way. It will be allowed to spend time, watching sea birds or trying to find oyster shells in the sand. In addition, they can climb the surrounding hills to watch birds.
5. Gardening
In 2016, the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) addresses the issue of appointing recipes for gardening to patients suffering from cancer, obesity, as well as a number of heart and mental problems, including dementia. According to NHS, gardening and some other outdoor activities improve sleep and reduce the feelings of loneliness, concern, stress and depression. Gardening also helps recovery, activates patients and gives them a sense of satisfaction. The study showed that patients with dementia, often near the garden or in it, are 19 percent less often resort to violence than those who did not attend the gardens. In fact, during the study, violence among patients with dementia, which did not attend the gardens, increased seven times.
6. Singing, Music, Sports, Art and Other Hobbies
The United Kingdom National Health Service also considers the issue of allowing doctors to write "musical" recipes for patients with dementia. According to Matt Hancok, the Minister of Great Britain for Health and Social Security, this plan was part of the government's attempt to reduce the permanent problem of "excessive population population". The government came to a similar solution after observing that patients with dementia who sang and listened to music looked less concerned and took less medication. In another study, organized by the Service Recovery Service in Halle and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, almost 90 percent of patients who have undergone stroke felt health improvement after they passed musical therapy. Patients affected by stroke were also less suffering from dizziness and anxiety, and also experienced less convulsions. They slept and concentrated on the current task better than before, and showed improved cognitive abilities. Doctors in Gloucestershire also prescribed singing patients with lung problems. In addition to singing and music, British doctors may prescribe a patient with sports, art and other hobbies. Hancock noted that by 2023 the NHS will allow the doctors to appoint "public events" and related entertainment for patients suffering from loneliness.
7. Visit the museum
In 2018, new legislation allowed doctors in Montreal to visit museums for their patients. To make this experience more enjoyable, patients issued free tickets and allowed to visit these institutions together with their friends, relatives or faces that ensure care for them. The program was launched in partnership with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). According to Natalie Bondil, the MMFA Director, the program will provide good results, because visiting museums has a positive effect on the nervous system. Helen Boyer, vice president of Medecins Francophones du Canada (MDFC), added that visiting the museum enhances the secretion of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which increases the mood. Boyer argues that a museum walk also has a positive effect on people suffering from potentially fatal diseases such as cancer.
8. Electricity
Even in medical circles, doctors are often criticized for writing prescriptions for medicines for almost every disease. It became so "norm" that patients expect they to receive a recipe for some medicines when visiting a doctor. Some people even begin to doubt the authority of the doctor if this does not happen. In fact, doctors gradually begin to realize that not all medical conditions require that pills. Instead, patients sometimes discharge ... Recipe for electricity to solve their health problems. This does not mean that the doctors will appoint something like shock therapy to their employees. Electricity discharges are so weak that the patient does not even feel them. In fact, such a procedure is still not available massively, but scientists believe that it should work perfectly, because the human body is essentially working on electricity. The brain sends weak electric signals nerves to force various parts of the body to perform certain functions. That is why nerve injuries often lead to paralysis - the paralyzed part of the body cannot receive signals. Scientists plan to use signals from an electrical instrument linted into the body. In addition to the fight against nerve damage, such a "treatment" can also be used to treat other diseases, such as diabetes and heart problems. This is achieved using electrical signals to the pancreas, so that it produces insulin or increased or reduced the heart rate.
9. Food
Not all patients need medicines. Some just need an ideal diet. Nevertheless, they could not earlier receive recipes for food until recently. Within the framework of the program "Food is a medicine", California doctors were allowed to issue recipes for certain nutrition. However, there is a snag. Recipes were planned to register only for 1000 poor patients suffering from heart failure. The program is based on a study conducted in 2013 by the Philadelphian Non-Commercial Union for Nutrition. It was found that the research team was prescribed a certain diet spent less than before. The average monthly medical expenses decreased to $ 28,183, compared with 38,937 dollars prior to the program. Patients who participated in the study also visited the hospitals twice as smaller than the control group, and were twice as smaller than.
10. Visit Park
In 2015, the South Dakota Health Department and the Department for the Conservation of Die, Fishes and Parks of the state launched a pilot program that allowed the doctors to write recipes for a park visit for their patients. Patients who received such recipes randomly visited any park or the recreation area owned by the state. In some other US cities there are similar programs to visit parks, for example, in Baltimore, where it is called "doctors in the park" and in Albuquerque, where it is called "tourist routes by prescription".