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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Medicine: Encyclopedia - Medicine
Medicine is the branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and inj...   » 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 - 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 - Allopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia - Allopathic Medicine
The term allopathic medicine is used by adherents of alternative medicine to refer to any form of mainstream medicine. This phrase is com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthomolecular Medicine: Encyclopedia - Orthomolecular Medicine
Orthomolecular medicine or optimum nutrition, emphasizes the use of natural substances found in a healthy diet such as vitamins, dietary ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osteopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia - Osteopathic Medicine
Osteopathic medicine (known as osteopathy in the past) is a branch of medicine which views the human body holistically, and emphasizes th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia - Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic medicine is the practice of attempting to improve the health of patients through the application of natural remedies. Naturo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthroposophical Medicine: Encyclopedia - Anthroposophical Medicine
Anthroposophical medicine is a holistic and salutogenetic approach to health. It thus focuses on ensuring that the conditions for health ...   » 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 - Traditional Medicine: Encyclopedia - Traditional Medicine
The term traditional medicine is used with two main meanings. The most common usage is to describe medical techniques traditionally used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Medicine: Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) also known simply as Chinese medicine (Chinese: 中醫學, zhōngyī xué, or 中药学, zhōngyaò xu...   » 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 - Chelation Therapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Chelation Therapy - Uses In Conventional Medicine
Heavy metal poisoning is an uncommon medical condition that can have significant effects on nearly every organ system [1]. Mercury, for e...   » 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 - Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Medicine - Practice Of Medicine
The practice of medicine combines both science and art. Science and technology are the evidence base for many clinical problems for the g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Traditional Chinese Medicine - Uses
In the West, TCM is often considered alternative medicine; however, in mainland China and Taiwan, TCM is widely considered to be an integ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ozone: Encyclopedia Ii - Ozone - Use In Medicine
Ozone, along with hypochlorite ions, is naturally produced by white blood cells and the roots of marigolds as a means of destroying forei...   » 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 - Osteopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Osteopathic Medicine - Criticism
In the United States Osteopathic medicine has been criticized for including unproven therapies such as cranial and cranio-sacral manipula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osteopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Osteopathic Medicine - Techniques Of Osteopathic Medicine
There are different techniques applied to the musculoskeletal system. These techniques can be applied to: (1) The joints (using High Velo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amphetamine: Encyclopedia Ii - Amphetamine - Medicinal Use
The experimental medical use of amphetamines began in the 1920s. It was introduced in most of the world in the form of the pharmaceutical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Digitalis: Encyclopedia Ii - Digitalis - Medicinal Use
The use of Digitalis purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described by William ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osteopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Osteopathic Medicine - Techniques Of Osteopathic Manual Medicine Omm
There are different techniques applied to the musculoskeletal system. These techniques can be applied to: (1) The joints (using High Velo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patent Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Patent Medicine - Ingredients And Their Uses
Patent medicine - What was in them?. Some level of exoticism and mystery in the contents of the preparation was deemed desirable by the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chayote: Encyclopedia Ii - Chayote - Culinary And Medicinal Uses
Although most people are familiar only with the fruit, which in culinary terms is a vegetable, the root, stem, seeds, and leaves are all ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Medicine - History Of Medicine
Medicine as it is practiced now is rooted in various traditions, but developed mainly in the late 18th and early 19th century in Germany ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturopathic Medicine - History Of Naturopathic Medicine
The term naturopathy was coined before 1900, by John Scheel, and used by Benedict Lust. (Lust is a German surname meaning "beautiful" or ...   » 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 - Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Medicine - Branches Of Medicine
Working together as an interdisciplinary team, many highly trained health professionals besides medical practitioners are involved in the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Allopathic Medicine - History Of Allopathy
Hahnemann used the term to refer to what he saw as a system of medicine that combats disease by using remedies that produce effects in a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yarrow: Encyclopedia Ii - Yarrow - Medicinal Uses
Yarrow intensifies the medicinal action of other herbs taken with it, and helps eliminate toxins from the body. It is reported to be asso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ginger: Encyclopedia Ii - Ginger - Medicinal Uses
Medical research has shown that ginger root is an effective treatment for nausea caused by motion sickness or other illness. Although ver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comfrey: Encyclopedia Ii - Comfrey - Medicinal Uses
Rosemary Morrow writes that 'Russian comfrey and garlic could together, according to natural health usage, almost halve the present ills ...   » 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

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

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 - 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

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 - Complementary Medicine: Natural Health Dictionary On Complementary Medicine
Complementary medicine: Various “alternative” practices such as meditation, homeopathy, massage, etc., that are not usuall...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Medicine: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Medicine
Medicine As the healing art, medicine is as old as thinking man. Before the latent fires of mind were lighted in the third root-race, ...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Manipulative Medicine: Complementary Medicine Dictionary On Manipulative Medicine
MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE: Based on massage techniques and structural manipulation.######When used in the ancient Chinese way, the whole e...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Osteopathic Medicine: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Osteopathic Medicine
OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE This system of comprehensive medical care goes beyond conventional medical philosophy to include an emphasis on s...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - Ayurvedic Medicine: Holistic Health Dictionary On Ayurvedic Medicine
AYURVEDIC MEDICINE Ayurvedic (pronounced eye yur VEH dik) medicine stresses a holistic approach to health. It means “science of...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Naturopathic Medicine: Natural Medicine 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 - Energy Medicine: Natural Health Dictionary Ii On Energy Medicine
Energy Medicine: Energetic medicine as defined within the mind/body/spirit model, involves therapies that affect energy fields that de...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Integrative Medicine: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Integrative Medicine
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE Alternative and conventional (allopathic) methodologies are combined to stimulate the person’s natural heal...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Allopathic Medicine: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Allopathic Medicine
ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE Known as conventional medicine, allopathy is a medical approach which seeks to cure by producing a condition in th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Integrative Medicine: Natural Health Dictionary On Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine: Combines conventional Western medicine, which primarily investigates and treats physical symptoms, with compleme...   » 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

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

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