Encyclopedia - Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia - Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine broadly describes methods and practices used in place of, or in addition to, conventional medical treatments. The pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Medicine - Complementary And Alternative Medicine
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine defines complementary and alternative medicine as "a group of diverse medi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alternative Medicine: Health And Healing Dictionary On Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine: Any form of medicine or healing other than the type approved by medical doctors and hospitals.   (See al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Complementary And Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia - Complementary And Alternative Medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM is a common abbreviation in the USA) is a diverse set of medical and health care systems, pra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wellness Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia - Wellness Alternative Medicine
Wellness is generally used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being. It has...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoga Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia - Yoga Alternative Medicine
Yoga when used as a form of alternative medicine is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation, practiced f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Work Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia - Body Work Alternative Medicine
In alternative medicine, body work or massage therapy refers to any treatment which involves some form of touching or physical manipulati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - U.s. National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia - U.s. National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine or NCCAM, is a United States government agency. NCCAM is dedicated to expl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Medicine - Support For Alternative Medicine
Advocates of alternative medicine hold that alternative therapies often provide the public with services not available from conventional ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Medicine - Criticism Of Alternative Medicine
Due to the wide range of therapies that are considered to be "alternative medicine" few criticisms apply across the board. For more infor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Medicine - Definitions
Alternative medicine broadly describes methods and practices used in place of, or in addition to, conventional medical treatments. The pr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alternative Medicine: Natural Health Dictionary On Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine: This term was originally coined to describe health care approaches not taught in medical schools. It has been re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Medicine - Regulation
Jurisdiction differs concerning which branches of alternative medicine are legal, which are regulated, and which (if any) are provided by...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alternative Medicine: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine  - Almost any form of therapy that differs from conventional medical practices. Examples include homeopathy,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Medicine - Contemporary Use Of Alternative Medicine
Edzard Ernst wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia that "about half the general population in developed countries use complementary a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Complementary And Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Complementary And Alternative Medicine - Contemporary Use Of Alternative Medicine
The popularity of CAM therapies is great. A survey released in May 2004 by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Alternative Medicine - History Of Alternative Medicine In Eastern Culture
History of alternative medicine - Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese medicine has more than 5,000 years of history as a system of med...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wellness Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Wellness Alternative Medicine - Introduction
Alternative approaches to wellness are often denoted by the use of two difference phrases: health and wellness, and wellness programs. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lifestyle Diseases Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Lifestyle Diseases Alternative Medicine - Lifestyle Diseases And Alternative Medicine
Changes in diet, lifestyle, and environment are thought to be factors which influence susceptibility to such diseases by biologically bas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - U.s. National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - U.s. National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine - Role
NCCAM is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science, training complementar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - U.s. National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - U.s. National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine - Organization And History
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lifestyle Diseases Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Lifestyle Diseases Alternative Medicine - International Variation In Cancer Rates
A recent research paper published in the Lancet discussed the variation in cancer rates that evidences the existence of lifestyle disease...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linus Pauling: Encyclopedia Ii - Linus Pauling - Work In Alternative Medicine
In 1941, at age 40, Pauling was diagnosed with a serious form of Bright’s disease, a fatal renal disease. Experts believed then that Br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linus Pauling: Encyclopedia Ii - Linus Pauling - Work In Alternative Medicine
In the late 1950s, Pauling worked on the role of enzymes in brain function, believing that mental illness may be partly caused by enzyme ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dental Amalgam Controversy: Encyclopedia Ii - Dental Amalgam Controversy - Amalgams And Alternative Medicine
Dental amalgams have been suspected by some medical practitioners, particularly of integrative or alternative medicine, of causing many p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magical Thinking: Encyclopedia Ii - Magical Thinking - Magical Thinking In Alternative Medicine
Phillips Stevens writes "Many of today's complementary or alternative systems of healing involve magical beliefs, manifesting ways of thi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Integrative Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine: practitioners of integrative medicine have training and interest in both conventional Western medicine and alter...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Botanical Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Botanical Medicine
Botanical medicine: another term for herbal medicine--therapies of or derived from plants.   (See also: Botanical medicine , A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Korean Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Korean Medicine
Korean medicine: A form of Oriental medicine that encompasses acupuncture and moxibustion.   (See also: Korean medicine , Body...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eastern Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Eastern Medicine
Eastern medicine: a group of methods that encompasses Chinese medicine, shiatsu, and relaxation techniques.   (See also: Easte...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Osteopathic Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Osteopathic Medicine
Osteopathic medicine: a system of therapy that emphasizes normal body mechanics and manipulation to correct faulty body structures. Os...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eastern Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Eastern Medicine
Eastern medicine: a broad term for Oriental, Indian, Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese medicine, all of which share philosophies about th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holistic Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Holistic Medicine
Holistic medicine: philosophical approach to health care which treats the patient as a whole person, not simply as a disease process o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine: a variety of ancient and modern therapeutic methods, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage, heat therapy, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anthroposophic Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Anthroposophic Medicine
Anthroposophic medicine: based on the principles of anthroposophy, developed by philosopher and spiritual scientist Rudolf Steiner, Ph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddhist Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Buddhist Medicine
Buddhist Medicine: A method that encompasses moxibustion and shiatsu massage.   (See also: Buddhist Medicine , Alternative Hea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Western Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Western Medicine
Western medicine: a term used by holistic health care practitioners to describe allopathic medicine, orthodox medicine, or the way med...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eagle Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Eagle Medicine
Eagle Medicine: Mode of Cherokee healing. Eagle Medicine includes the vision quest - a spiritual search.   (See also: Eagle Me...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holistic Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Holistic Medicine
holistic medicine: Alternative medicine. That form of alternative medicine which focuses on personal accountability for one's hea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurvedic Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedic medicine: 5,000-year-old system of holistic and preventive medicine from India that treats illness as an imbalance or stress...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mental Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Mental Medicine
Mental Medicine (the Medicine of the North, Mental Medicine path, mental path): Mode of Cherokee healing that includes biofeedback, th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asian Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Asian Medicine
Asian medicine: Group of Eastern methods that includes acupuncture, panchakarma, and shiatsu.   (See also: Asian medicine , Al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Uighur Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Uighur Medicine
Uighur medicine: Medical tradition of the Uighurs, the Turkic inhabitants of Xinjiang (Xinjiang Uygur), an autonomous region of wester...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oriental Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Oriental Medicine
Oriental medicine: In general, the use of acupuncture, Chinese herbal combinations, diet, and emotional changes with the aim of elimin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Beyond Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Beyond Medicine
BEYOND MEDICINE (Future Medicine): Multi-dimensional approach promoted by Shoshana Margolin, M.A., N.D., D.H.M., P.M.D., author of the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Comfortable Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Comfortable Medicine
Comfortable Medicine (Kai Igaku, Medicina Agradable, Pleasant Medicine): A health system of Japanese origin. It encompasses herbal tre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natural Medicine Path: Alternative Health Dictionary On Natural Medicine Path
Natural Medicine Path (the Medicine of the South, the Natural Medicine of the South): Mode of Cherokee healing. The Natural Medicine P...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine Cards: Alternative Health Dictionary On Medicine Cards
Medicine Cards: Divination system that draws from Aztec, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Iroquois, Mayan, Seneca, and Yaqui traditions. It feature...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Coyote Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Coyote Medicine
Coyote Medicine (half-breed medicine): Mode of doctoring developed by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D., author of Coyote Medicine (Scri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Physical Medicine Path: Alternative Health Dictionary On Physical Medicine Path
Physical Medicine Path (the Medicine of the West): Mode of Cherokee healing.   (See also: Physical Medicine Path , Body Mind ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anthroposophical Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Anthroposophical Medicine
anthroposophical medicine (anthroposophically-extended medicine, anthroposophical therapeutics): Medical phase of anthroposophy, the o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine Dance: Alternative Health Dictionary On Medicine Dance
medicine dance: A ritual dance performed by some North American Indian peoples. Its purposes include eliminating disease, inducing rai...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM): Ancient holistic system whose basics include herbology, nutrition, and the conce...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occult Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Occult Medicine
occult medicine: Field that encompasses astrology, aura analysis, biorhythm, Christian Science, clairvoyant diagnosis, faith healing, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orthomolecular Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Orthomolecular Medicine
orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy): An approach to therapy whose centerpiece is meg...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orthomolecular Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Orthomolecular Medicine
orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy): An approach to therapy whose centerpiece is meg...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Resonance Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Resonance Medicine
resonance medicine (electric medicine, electro-medicine): a group of methods exemplified by modalities that Robert Beck, Hulda Regehr ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Medicine Path: Alternative Health Dictionary On Spiritual Medicine Path
Spiritual Medicine Path (the Medicine for the Spiritual Direction): Mode of Cherokee healing that includes thanksgiving to the Great O...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tibetan Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Tibetan Medicine
Tibetan medicine (Amchi, Emchi): A largely allopathic system that stems from Ayurveda, Bon (see Bon shamanic practices), Chinese medic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Traditional Chinese Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): The dominant style of Chinese medicine in the People's Republic of China.   (See also: Tr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Indian Systems Of Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Indian Systems Of Medicine
Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM): Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani. Ayurveda, naturopathy, Siddha, Tibetan medicine, Unani, and yoga. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holistic Medicine: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Holistic Medicine
Holistic Medicine: The philosophy of holistic medicine states that the practitioner must use safe methods of diagnosis and treatment w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Vietnamese traditional medicine (Vietnamese medicine): Syncretic medical tradition of Vietnam. It includes acupuncture, cupping, moxib...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrologic Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Astrologic Medicine
astrologic medicine (astral healing, astrological healing, astromedicine, medical astrology, medicinal astrology): System based on cos...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary Ii On Chinese Medicine
Chinese Medicine: One of the oldest forms of holistic medicine. This complete system seeks to balance the flow of life force energy or...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Integrative Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary Ii On Integrative Medicine
Integrative Medicine: Unlike conventional doctors, integrative medical practitioners take a holistic approach to healing. Rather than ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Traditional Indian Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Traditional Indian Medicine
traditional Indian medicine: 1. (TIM, American Indian Healing, Indian Medicine, Native American Healing Ways, Traditional Native Ameri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tibetan Herbal Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Tibetan Herbal Medicine
Tibetan herbal medicine: Tibetan herbalism. Its theory posits humoural imbalances.   (See also: Tibetan herbal medicine , Bod...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alternative Therapies: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Alternative Therapies
Alternative therapies: interventions for improving, maintaining and promoting health and well being, preventing disease, or treating i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sports Medicine: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine: This branch of medicine began as a special focus on athletic injuries caused by competition or participation in organ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naturopathic Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary Ii On Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic Medicine: A comprehensive practice that includes techniques from multiple modalities. Naturopathy is based on the belief ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nutritional Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary Ii On Nutritional Medicine
Nutritional Medicine: Practitioners use diet and vitamin/mineral supplements to help the body fight illness and injury and maintain ov...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Herbal Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Chinese Herbal Medicine
Chinese herbal medicine (CHM, Zhang Yao): A major pillar of Chinese medicine. According to its theory, herbs can influence the yin and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natural And Macrobiotic Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Natural And Macrobiotic Medicine
Natural and Macrobiotic Medicine: A group of methods that encompasses acupuncture, astrological diagnosis, aura and vibrational diagno...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Complementary Therapies: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Alternative Medicine
Complementary therapies , Alternative medicine , Alternative therapies, Alternative therapy, Complementary medicine, Complementary th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psionic Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Psionic Medicine
psionic medicine (psionics): Derivative of medical radiesthesia and radionics developed by physician George Laurence. It is a variatio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Traditional Chinese Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine theory posits both Organs (the Triple Burner, for example) and Substances (such as Shen, or Spirit) for w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurvedic Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary Ii On Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedic Medicine: Practiced in India for the last 5,000 years. The underlying philosophy of this medicine is that people have one of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vibrational Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Vibrational Medicine
vibrational medicine (energetic medicine, energetics medicine, energy medicine, subtle-energy medicine, vibrational healing, vibration...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naturopathic Medicine: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic Medicine: Adhering to the principles of holistic medicine, naturopathic doctors can use various natural methods to treat ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Herbal Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary Ii On Herbal Medicine
Herbal Medicine: Herbs have been used throughout history to treat major and minor conditions. Like in modern pharmacology, herbs conta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Complementary Medicine: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Complementary Medicine
 Complementary Medicine  - This term often is used synonymously with alternative medicine. However, this name suggests that ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Osteopathic Medicine: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Osteopathic Medicine
Osteopathic Medicine: Most osteopathic doctors (DOs) work as primary care physicians, combining conventional Western medicine (drugs/s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Classical Indian Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Classical Indian Medicine
classical Indian medicine (ancient Indian medicine, Ayurveda, classical Ayurveda, classic Hindu medicine, traditional Ayurveda, tradit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurvedic Medicine: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedic Medicine: In this ancient medical system from India, patients are classified according to three metabolic body types: vata, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Chinese (oriental) Medicine
Chinese (Oriental) Medicine: Traditional Chinese medicine encompasses a vast range of therapies including acupuncuture, herbs, bodywor...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Traditional Medicine: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Traditional Medicine
Traditional Medicine  - A term generally used to describe the native therapies of a certain region (eg, the traditional medicine ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holistic Medicine: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Holistic Medicine
Holistic Medicine - Therapies that treat the whole person's mind and body, as opposed to just the part of the body where symptoms occu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orthomolecular Medicine: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Orthomolecular Medicine
Orthomolecular Medicine  - The treatment or prevention of disease by the use of large amounts of normally occurring substances, m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Folk Medicine: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Folk Medicine
Folk Medicine - Therapy based on different cultures (eg, Indian folk medicine). It usually involves specific cultures, beliefs in chos...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aryuvedic Medicine: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Aryuvedic Medicine
Aryuvedic Medicine  - A system of medicine derived from an ancient Indian philosophy. The practices emphasize the use of one's ph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Schuessler Biochemic System Of Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Schuessler Biochemic System Of Medicine
Schuessler biochemic system of medicine (biochemic medicine, biochemic system of medicine, biochemic system of medicines, tissue salts...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Doshas: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Doshas
Doshas: in Ayurvedic medicine, three basic physiological principles that interact to create health; an imbalance leads to disease. &...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Allopathy: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Allopathy
Allopathy: the conventional method of medicine that combats disease by using active techniques specifically against the disease. &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dietics: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Dietics
Dietics: the study and regulation of the diet.   (See also: Dietics , Alternative Medicine, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Photoestrogens: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Photoestrogens
photoestrogens: plant compounds that exert estrogen-like effects.   (See also: Photoestrogens , Alternative Medicine, Body Min...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naturopathy: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Naturopathy
Naturopathy: integrates traditional natural therapies such as botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, homeopathy, acupuncture, hydroth...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Triglyceride: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Triglyceride
Triglyceride: a compound found in most animal and vegetable fats that is made up of a fatty acid and glycerol.   (See also: Tr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Melatonin: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Melatonin
Melatonin: hormone synthesized in the pineal body, implicated in the regulation of biological rhythms, such as sleep.   (See al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupressure: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Acupressure
Acupressure:  type of Chinese medicine that uses direct stimulation by a therapist's fingertips, knuckles, or hands or from blunt...   » Read the article