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Terms And Concepts In Alternative Medicine
This is a list of articles covering alternative medicine topics. A * Activated charcoal cleanse * Acupressure * Acupuncture * Affirmative prayer * Alexander technique * Alternative cancer treatments * Animal-Assisted Therapy * Anthroposophical medicine * Apitherapy * Applied kinesiology * Aquatherapy * Aromatherapy * Art Therapy * Asahi Health * Astrology * Attachment therapy * Auriculotherapy * Autogenic training * Autosuggestion * Ayurveda B * Bach flower therapy * Balneotherapy * Bates method * Bibliotherapy * Biodanza * Bioresonance therapy * Blood irradiation therapies * Body-based manipulative therapies * Body work (alternative medicine) or Massage therapy C * Chelation therapy * Chinese food therapy * Chinese herbology * Chinese martial arts * Chinese medicine * Chinese pulse diagnosis * Chakra * Chiropractic * Chromotherapy (color therapy, colorpuncture) * Cinema therapy * Coding (therapy) * Coin rubbing * Colloidal silver therapy * Colon cleansi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence from clinical trials. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrated medicine or integrative medicine (IM), and holistic medicine attempt to combine alternative practices with those of mainstream medicine. Alternative therapies share in common that they reside outside of medical science and instead rely on pseudoscience. Traditional practices become "alternative" when used outside their original settings and without proper scientific explanation and evidence. Frequently used derogatory terms for relevant practices are ''new age'' or ''pseudo-'' medicine, with little distinction from quackery. Some alternative practices are based on theories that contradict the established science of how the human body works; others resort to the supernatural or superstitious to explain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auriculotherapy
Auriculotherapy (also auricular therapy, ear acupuncture, and auriculoacupuncture) is a form of alternative medicine based on the idea that the ear is a micro system, which reflects the entire body, represented on the auricle, the outer portion of the ear. Conditions affecting the physical, mental or emotional health of the patient are assumed to be treatable by stimulation of the surface of the ear exclusively. Similar mappings are used by several modalities, including the practices of reflexology and iridology. These mappings are not based on or supported by any medical or scientific evidence, and are therefore considered to be pseudoscience. History and development The oldest record of auriculotherapy possibly dates back to 2500 BC to ''The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine'' (ca. 100 BCE), though it was limited to bloodletting and cauterization. Chapter 20 mentioned phlebotomy of a distended vein in the ear to relieve tightness in the costal margin and Chapter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelation Therapy
Chelation therapy is a medical procedure that involves the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body. Chelation therapy has a long history of use in clinical toxicology and remains in use for some very specific medical treatments, although it is administered under very careful medical supervision due to various inherent risks, including the mobilization of mercury and other metals through the brain and other parts of the body by the use of weak chelating agents that unbind with metals before elimination, exacerbating existing damage. To avoid mobilization, some practitioners of chelation use strong chelators, such as selenium, taken at low doses over a long period of time. Chelation therapy must be administered with care as it has a number of possible side effects, including death. In response to increasing use of chelation therapy as alternative medicine and in circumstances in which the therapy should not be used in conventional medicine, vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body Work (alternative Medicine)
In alternative medicine, bodywork is any therapeutic or personal development technique that involves working with the human body in a form involving manipulative therapy, breath work, or energy medicine. Bodywork techniques also aim to assess or improve posture, promote awareness of the " bodymind connection" which is an approach that sees the human body and mind as a single integrated unit, or to manipulate the electromagnetic field alleged to surround the human body and affect health. Forms Some of the best known forms of non-touch bodywork methods include: reiki, yoga, pranayama, as well as other non-touch methods: breathwork respiration techniques, therapeutic touch, the Bates method for sight training, qigong, and t'ai chi. The better known forms of manipulative bodywork include the Bowen technique, chiropractic, reflexology, Rolfing, postural integration, shiatsu, and the Trager approach. There are also some methods that use light touch (not tissue work) to retrain mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terms And Concepts In Alternative Medicine
This is a list of articles covering alternative medicine topics. A * Activated charcoal cleanse * Acupressure * Acupuncture * Affirmative prayer * Alexander technique * Alternative cancer treatments * Animal-Assisted Therapy * Anthroposophical medicine * Apitherapy * Applied kinesiology * Aquatherapy * Aromatherapy * Art Therapy * Asahi Health * Astrology * Attachment therapy * Auriculotherapy * Autogenic training * Autosuggestion * Ayurveda B * Bach flower therapy * Balneotherapy * Bates method * Bibliotherapy * Biodanza * Bioresonance therapy * Blood irradiation therapies * Body-based manipulative therapies * Body work (alternative medicine) or Massage therapy C * Chelation therapy * Chinese food therapy * Chinese herbology * Chinese martial arts * Chinese medicine * Chinese pulse diagnosis * Chakra * Chiropractic * Chromotherapy (color therapy, colorpuncture) * Cinema therapy * Coding (therapy) * Coin rubbing * Colloidal silver therapy * Colon cleansi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Irradiation Therapies
Blood irradiation therapy is an alternative medical procedure in which the blood is exposed to low level light (often laser light) for therapeutic reasons. The practice was originally developed in the United States, but most recent research on it has been conducted in Germany (by UV lamps) and in Russia (in all variants). Low-level laser therapy has been tested for a wide range of conditions, but rigorous double-blinded studies have not yet been performed. Furthermore, it has been claimed that ultraviolet irradiation of blood kills bacteria by DNA damage and also activation of the immune system. Blood irradiation therapy is highly controversial, and has fallen from mainstream use since its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s. Blood irradiation therapy can be administered in three ways: extracorporeally, transcutaneously, and intravenously. The extracorporeal (outside the body) method removes blood from the body and irradiates it in a special cuvette (tube). This method is used for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bioresonance Therapy
Energy medicine is a branch of alternative medicine based on a pseudo-scientific belief that healers can channel "healing energy" into a patient and effect positive results. Practitioners use a number of names including various synonyms for medicine (e.g., energy healing) and sometimes use the word vibrational instead of or in concert with energy. In most cases there is no empirically measurable energy involved: the term refers instead to so-called subtle energy. Practitioners may classify practice as hands-on, hands-off, and distant (or absent) where the patient and healer are in different locations. Many schools of energy healing exist using many names: for example, biofield energy healing, spiritual healing, contact healing, distant healing, therapeutic touch, Reiki or ''Qigong''. Reviews of the scientific literature on energy healing have concluded that there is no evidence supporting clinical efficacy. The theoretical basis of healing has been criticised as implausible; r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biodanza
Biodanza (a neologism jointed the Greek ''bio'' ifeand the Spanish '' danza'', literally "the dance of life") is a system of self-development utilizing music, movement and positive feelings to deepen self-awareness. It seeks to promote the ability to make a holistic link to oneself and one's emotions and to express them. Practitioners believe that Biodanza opens the space for one to deepen the bonds with others and nature and to express those feelings in a congenial manner. Origins and popularity It was created in the 1960s by the Chilean anthropologist and psychologist Rolando Toro Araneda. The Biodanza system is now found in 54 countries, including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Israel, India, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela, Australia, Japan, South Africa, United States, Ireland and Russia. Purpose and process Practitioners describe Biodanza as a "h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy (also referred to as book therapy, reading therapy, poetry therapy or therapeutic storytelling) is a creative arts therapy that involves storytelling or the reading of specific texts. It uses an individual's relationship to the content of books and poetry and other written words as therapy. Bibliotherapy partially overlaps with, and is often combined with, writing therapy. Distinct from the creative arts therapy is bibliotherapy as a supportive psychotherapy, a brief self-help intervention where through the reading of a chosen standard manual, emotion regulation skills are acquired through either behavioral therapy or cognitive therapy techniques. Two popular books used for this are ''The Feeling Good Handbook'' for cognitive therapy and ''Control Your Depression'' for behavioral therapy. The main advantage of this psychotherapy compared to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is its cost-effectiveness, although, especially for complex presentations, CBT tends to ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bates Method
The Bates method is an ineffective and potentially dangerous alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight. Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates (1860–1931) held the erroneous belief that the extraocular muscles effected changes in focus and that "mental strain" caused abnormal action of these muscles; hence he believed that relieving such "strain" would cure defective vision. In 1952, optometry professor Elwin Marg wrote of Bates, "Most of his claims and almost all of his theories have been considered false by practically all visual scientists." No type of training has been shown to change the refractive power of the eye. Moreover, certain aspects of the Bates method can put its followers at risk: They may damage their eyes through overexposure to sunlight, not wear their corrective lenses while driving, or neglect conventional eye care, possibly allowing serious conditions to develop. Early history In 1891, Bates published an article in the ''New York Medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balneotherapy
Balneotherapy ( la, balneum "bath") is a method of treating diseases by bathing, a traditional medicine technique usually practiced at spas. Since ancient times, humans have used hot springs, public baths and thermal medicine for therapeutic effects. While it is considered distinct from hydrotherapy, there are some overlaps in practice and in underlying principles. Balneotherapy may involve hot or cold water, massage through moving water, relaxation, or stimulation. Many mineral waters at spas are rich in particular minerals such as silica, sulfur, selenium, and radium. Medicinal clays are also widely used, a practice known as 'fangotherapy'. Definition and characteristics "Balneotherapy" is the practice of immersing a subject in mineral water or mineral-laden mud; it is part of the traditional medicine of many cultures and originated in hot springs, cold water springs, or other sources of such water, like the Dead Sea. Presumed effect on diseases Balneotherapy may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bach Flower Remedies
Bach flower remedies (BFRs) are solutions of brandy and water—the water containing extreme dilutions of flower material developed by Edward Bach, an English homeopath, in the 1930s. Bach claimed that the dew found on flower petals retains the supposed healing properties of that plant. Systematic reviews of clinical trials of Bach flower solutions have found no efficacy beyond a placebo effect. Description The Bach flower remedy solutions, which contain a 50:50 mix of water and brandy, are called mother tincture. Stock remedies—the solutions sold in shops—are dilutions of mother tincture into other liquid. Most often the liquid used is alcohol, so that the alcohol level by volume in most stock Bach remedies is between 25 and 40% (50 to 80 proof). The solutions do not have a characteristic scent or taste of the plant because of dilution. The dilution process results in the statistical likelihood that little more than a single molecule may remain; it is claimed that the rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
