Unitary Health Care (unitary nursing): A mode of nursing based on the work of nursing professor Martha Elizabeth Rogers, Ph.D. (1914Ð1994), during the 1950s in New York. It includes Health Patterning and Unitary Pattern Appreciation.

(See also: Unitary Health Care, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Spiritual Beauty Care: Subject of a paperback of the same name, by Jacqueline Sinnige. Spiritual Beauty Care either constitutes or is a part of alternative beauty care. Its purpose is to restore the balance of bodily energies.

(See also: Spiritual Beauty Care, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Life Care Kinesiology (Life Care): Offshoot of applied kinesiology put together by Dr. Richard Beale. It borrows from acupuncture and Touch for Health and includes chakra meditation.

(See also: Life Care Kinesiology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

In alternative medicine, natural health is an eclectic self-care system of "natural therapies" concerned with building and restoring health and wellness via prevention and healthy lifestyles. Natural health includes herbalism, natural hygiene, naturopathy, and nutripathy and these techniques are sometimes viewed to be useful as complementary therapy to conventional medicine. Natural health - History of Natural Health. Although the term natural health did not become part of common usage until the late ...

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• Natural health - New World
• Natural health - The Popular Health Movement 1830 - 1840
• Natural health - Antebellum America
• Natural health - Progressive Era of Health Care Reform 1890-1920
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• Natural health - Victim-blaming
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Defined negatively, health is the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. In any organism, health is a form of homeostasis. This is a state of balance, with inputs and outputs of energy and matter in equilibrium (allowing for growth). Health also implies good prospects for continued survival. In sentient creatures such as humans, health is a broader concept. Many definitions of health have been offered from time to time. Webster's Dic ...

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Angel Chiropractic Care: Wholistic approach promoted by Dr. Steven B. Angel. It encompasses applied kinesiology, Bach flower therapy, biomagnetic therapy, chiropractic techniques, CranioSacral Therapy, nutritional counseling, reflexology, and vibrational medicine.

(See also: Angel Chiropractic Care, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Body Centered Comprehensive Holistic Health Care: a form of health care that encompasses acupuncture, holistic gynecology, and holistic skin care.

(See also: Body Centered Comprehensive Holistic Health Care, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Native American Indian health care:

community-based health care practices found among the tribes of North America that share the use of sweating, purging, herbal remedies, and shamanism.

(See also: Native American Indian health care, Alternative Medicine, Body Mind and Soul)

Animal Care: Intuitive readings communicating with animals to diagnose and treat health problems and solve behavioral difficulties.

(See also: Animal Care, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Therapeutic Prayer: a powerful, nonreligious way to express caring and utilize the energy of prayer.

(See also: Therapeutic Prayer, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

holistic optometry (holistic eye care): A form of optometry that encompasses acupuncture, biofeedback, bodywork, psychotherapy, and syntonics (a form of colored light therapy).

(See also: Holistic optometry, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Unergi Method (Unergi holistic therapy): Self-care system that integrates the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Awareness Movement, Gestalt therapy, and Rubenfeld Synergy. It includes dreamwork, healing touch, inner child work, meditation, and verbal therapy. Holistic Therapist Ute Arnold developed the method in or before 1978.

(See also: Unergi Method, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

cosmetic aromatherapy: Topical use of skin- and hair-care products that contain essential oils.

(See also: Cosmetic aromatherapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Alternative therapies:

interventions for improving, maintaining and promoting health and well being, preventing disease, or treating illness. Encompassing over 200 modalities and more than 10,000 uses, alternative and complementary therapies are not part of the standard North American biomedical regimen of health care or disease prevention. Standard refers to practices commonly taught in U. S. medical schools, covered by major insurers, or referred to as allopathic or Western medicine.

(See also: Alternative therapies, Alternative Medicine, Body Mind and Soul)

THERAPY

treatment and care of someone to combat disease, injury, or mental disorder.

(See also: THERAPY, Alternative Health, Healing, Body Mind and Soul)

Alternative medicine: This term was originally coined to describe health care approaches not taught in medical schools. It has been replaced with “complementary medicine” since Americans rarely use these approaches to the exclusion of Western, conventional medicine. Integrative medicine refers to the proactive, deliberate combination of conventional and complementary therapies.

(See also: Alternative medicine, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Holistic medicine:

philosophical approach to health care which treats the patient as a whole person, not simply as a disease process or a collection of symptoms. Holistic health care practitioners may combine allopathic medicine with complementary therapies, taking into account the emotional, spiritual, social, nutritional, mental, environmental, and physical aspects of health and illness.

(See also: Holistic medicine, Alternative Medicine, Body Mind and Soul)

Self-Applied Health Enhancement Methods (SAHEM): Variation of self-healing developed by Roger Jahnke, C.A., O.M.D., author of The Healer Within: The Four Essential Self-Care Techniques for Optimal Health (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999). The methods fall into four categories: gentle movements and postures (e.g., tai chi); self-massage (e.g., auricular reflexology); breathing exercises; and (d) relaxation practices.

(See also: Self-Applied Health Enhancement Methods, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Science of Unitary Human Beings (SUHB): The conceptual health care system created by Martha E. Rogers, Ph.D. (see Unitary Health Care), the author of Reveille in Nursing (1964) and An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing (1970).

According to SUHB, all humans are only manifestations of a whole that is both knowable and unknowable.

(See also: Science of Unitary Human Beings, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)