List of branches of alternative medicine
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This is a list of the Wikipedia articles included in the alternative medicine (CAM) series of articles.
These articles are either about fully developed systems of alternative medicine or they are about generic alternative methods of treatment.
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- Affirmations
- Applied kinesiology
- Apitherapy
- Aromatherapy
- Astrology
- Autogenic Training
- Autosuggestion
- Ayurveda
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- Bach Flower Therapy
- Balneotherapy
- Bates Method
- Biodanza
- Biologically Based Therapies
- Bioresonance therapy
- Blood irradiation therapies
- Body-Based Manipulative Therapies
- Body work or Massage therapy
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- Ear Candling
- Electromagnetic therapy
- Energy therapies
- Acupuncture[1]
- Magnet therapy
- Medical acupuncture
- Reiki (Seichim and Sekhem)
- Qigong
- Shiatsu
- Therapeutic Touch
- Thai massage
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[edit] Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy is the external use of water in the medical treatment of disease, such as through the use of baths, the application of hot and cold compresses or sheet packs, and shower sprays. These applications typically use water as a medium for delivery of heat and cold to the body, capitalising on the thermoregulatory properties of the body for therapeutic effect.[1][2][3]
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[edit] Iridology
Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis[4]) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts which divide the iris into zones corresponding to specific parts of the human body.
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- Magnetic healing
- Manipulative therapy
- Massage therapy
- Medical acupuncture
- Medical intuition
- Meditation
- Mega-vitamin therapy
- Mind-Body Interventions
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- T'ai Chi Ch'uan
- Thalassotherapy is the use of seawater as a form of therapy.[5] Thalassotherapy was popular in England during the second half of the eighteenth century, with Doctor Richard Russell credited as playing a significant role in its popularity.[6]
- Therapeutic horseback riding
- Therapeutic Touch
- Tibetan eye chart
- Tongue diagnosis
- Traditional Chinese medicine
- Traditional Japanese medicine
- Traditional Mongolian medicine
- Traditional Tibetan medicine
- Trager Approach
- Transcendental meditation
- Trigger point
- Tui Na
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- Water cure (therapy) in the therapeutic sense is a course of medical treatment by hydrotherapy.[7] In the nineteenth century, the term Water Cure was used synonymously with hydropathy, which itself is the 19th century term for hydrotherapy.[8][9] Conceptually, water cures include a broad range of practices - essentially any therapeutic uses of water. See hydrotherapy for further information.
- Wellness has been used in CAM contexts since Halbert L. Dunn began using the phrase "high level wellness" in the 1950s, based on a series of lectures at a Unitarian Universalist Church in Arlington, VA.[10] Wellness is generally used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being.
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[edit] References
- ^ Guyton, Arthur C.; Hall, John E. (2006). Textbook of Medical Physiology (11th ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-0240-1.
- ^ Kozier, Barbara; Erb, Glenora; Olivieri, Rita (1991). Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice (4th ed.). Redwood City, California: Addison-Wesley. pp. 1335–1336. ISBN 0-201-09202-6
- ^ Thrash, Agatha; & Calvin Thrash (1981). Home Remedies: Hydrotherapy, Massage, Charcoal and Other Simple Treatments. Seale, Alabama: Thrash Publications. ISBN 0-942658-02-7.
- ^ Cline D; Hofstetter HW; Griffin JR. Dictionary of Visual Science. 4th ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston 1997. ISBN 0-7506-9895-0
- ^ Angus Stevenson, ed (2007). "Definition of Thalasso therapy". Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 2: N-Z (6th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 3225. ISBN 978-0-19-920687-2. Note: Thalasso therapy is a sub-definition under the listing for Thalasso.
- ^ Gray, Fred (2006). Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature. London: Reaktion Books. pp. 46–47. ISBN 1-86189-274-8. http://books.google.com/?id=5B69CiXKjgQC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=1769+%22Sea+Water+in+the+Diseases+of+the+Glands.+%22&q=Russell. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
- ^ Angus Stevenson, ed (2007). "Definition of Water Cure". Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 2: N-Z (6th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 3586. ISBN 978-0-19-920687-2. Note: Definition is under the general listing for water (noun), alphabetically in the sub-listing for phrases. This section begins on p.3585, but the definition for Water Cure is found in the top part of the first column on p.3586. The phrases are in alphabetical order, so it's just a matter of going down the list.
- ^ Unsigned article (1910). "Hydropathy". In …. The Encyclopaedia Britannica. XIV. London: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company. pp. 165–166. http://www.archive.org/stream/encyclopdiabrit18chisgoog#page/n184/mode/1up. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
- ^ "Water cure definition per Webster's 1913 dictionary". http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=water+cure&use1913=on&use1828=on. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
- ^ DUNN HL (1959). "High-Level Wellness for Man and Society" (Scanned & PDF). Am J Public Health Nations Health 49 (6): 786–92. doi:10.2105/AJPH.49.6.786. PMC 1372807. PMID 13661471. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1372807.
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