Talk:List of branches of alternative medicine

This article has existed since 4 Aug 2003. We will be using it as part of the navigational menu system for the Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine, instead of creating yet another duplicate article. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 05:32, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This article will be modeled after Schools of Buddhism which is a required part of the WikiProject on Buddhism menu navigation system. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 14:16, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Is the Dermovision entry a joke? ᚣᚷᚷᛞᚱᚫᛋᛁᛚ 17:13, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I have never heard of it. You would have to trace page history to figure out who actually added the entry, and perhaps why. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 17:23, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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branches of alternative medicine

I think this list looks like modalities of alternative medicine, not branches. Traditional Chinese medicine is a branch. Acupressure is a modality. Thoughts? heidimo 04:43, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

The original wording was forms of alternative medicine. I have been forcing it be branches of alternative medicine as a word play in order to model it after conventional medicine. Medicine talks about the branches of medicine. Thus, so should alternative medicine in my opinion. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 05:13, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

I like forms better than branches personally. Branches seems to suggest a common origin, and 'alternative medicine' is sort of a catch-all category for a lot of disciplines, many of which have little in common with each other. --Eloil 15:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

So the current wording is to make it sound more like medicine? That would be an outright NPOV, SOAP, and FRINGE violation. Shall we change it back? --Ronz (talk) 18:14, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Generic alternative methods of treatment

This article covers the major generic alternative methods of treatment. The difference between the article on Branches of alternative medicine and Philosophy of alternative medicine is that only the major generic alternative treatment methods are covered. So, Diet would be covered here, but all many different kinds of diets, such as vegetarianism would be covered in Philosophy of alternative medicine.

Another way of looking at it is that we want a maximum of two layers of relationships in the Branches of alternative medicine article. Specific kinds of diets and exercise are not listed, so as to avoid too many layers of relationships. -- John Gohde 03:26, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

how did "yoga" get here?

"Yoga is one of the six darshanas (schools) of Vedic/Hindu philosophy, and as such specifically refers to Raja Yoga, the royal path of divine meditation on the one Brahman. A man who has taken up successful practice of Yoga is called a Yogi (also spelled Yogin), a woman Yogini. Several other forms of yoga exist within Hinduism including those of selfless action (Karma Yoga), selfless love (Bhakti Yoga), and discriminatory contemplation (Jnana Yoga). Many modern, non-sectarian hatha yoga schools are popular and focus more on coordination of bodily health in addition to mental and spiritual well-being. "

Shouldn't the link be to: Many modern, non-sectarian hatha yoga schools are popular and focus more on coordination of bodily health in addition to mental and spiritual well-being.

Cappeller's Sanskrit-English Dictionary defines Yoga as: m. collection or concentration of the mind, meditation, contemplation (1) --robert_wh 12:10, 2004 May 18 (UTC)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy?

Why in the world would CBT be listed as a branch of alternative medicine? Every psychology class I've ever had has mentioned it as one of the major schools of therapy, and as the school that's generally most effective for treating depression. That sounds about as mainstream as it gets, unless for some reason you consider psychotherapy in general to be "alternative medicine." Penelope D 01:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

because the author of this list was trying to increase the credibilty of alt med.Geni 01:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Seems likely. It also used to include physiotherapy as a branch of "alternative medicine", which we eventually managed to get removed. I have removed CBT from the list. --Daveb 07:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

RfC: Mass removal of "Category:Alternative medicine" from most articles

I have started an RfC: RfC: Mass removal of "Category:Alternative medicine" from most articles. Please comment on this important subject. -- Fyslee / talk 16:44, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm replying with this to everywhere Fyslee has put this request, though you are of course welcome to comment on what he's created. I need to write where he has put this because the title of this thing, started without Fyslee bothering to talk to me about it at all on my talk page, is inaccurate because as I would have told him if he asked, all I'm doing is moving things into the subcategories, (where they should be) which are still in the category. The reason I'm doing this is because at the top of the page it says (the bolding is the page's, not mine, and it's also in a red box This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should list very few, if any, article pages directly and should mainly contain subcategories. So I did what it said. Controversial and shocking "mass deletion" eh?:):):):):) Sticky Parkin 14:28, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Merge data

Merge data from List of branches of alternative medicine to this article. Northamerica1000 ^(talk) 09:43, 11 October 2011 (UTC)