pigeon remedy (pigeon therapy): An unconventional medical therapy for jaundice. Described in rabbinical literature, pigeon remedy is a form of transference treatment characterized by placing a pigeon on the jaundiced person's navel.

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Bach Flower Remedies

Flower Remedies were created to address emotional problems. They are a holistic form of medicine that treat the person rather than the disease. Developed during the 1930's by Dr Edward Bach, there are thirty eight different remedies that are given according to a person's personality type. The energy of the plants is captured in water and applied directly onto the tongue or in a liquid carrier including water, tea or coffee.

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Bach Flower Remedies/ Flower Essences - A specific cross between homeopathy and herbal medicine developed by English practitioner Dr. Edward Bach, the thirty-eight Bach Flower remedies derived from English wildflowers serve as catalysts to alleviate the underlying causes of stress. Since then, many practitioners have gone beyond Bach to develop a whole range of Flower Essences from a wide variety of American, European and Australian wildflowers.

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The doctrine of individualization (the rule of the single remedy): According to this principle, the ideal potential homeopathic remedy for a particular ill person is that substance which induces in healthy persons all the health problems, mannerisms, and dispositions the ill person has related if it is applied in quantities that render it bioactive.

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transference treatment: Any remedy whose principle is that a body can transfer (transplant) its nature to another, or that illness is transferable by grafting.

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Optimum Health Balance: Offshoot of applied kinesiology developed by Charles Benham. Practitioners place remedies or supplements on clients, to channel the energy patterns of such things.

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complex homeopathy: Form of homeopathy that involves obtaining an extensive patient history and using several remedies or substances in combination. It may include electrodiagnosis.

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Tuina (tway na)  (Chinese Massage Therapy, Push Grab Massage, Tuei-Na, Tui Na An Mo, tuina therapy): Ancient Chinese form of remedial massage that regulates the circulation of chi and restores the balance of yin and yang (cosmic poles).

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Zulu Sangoma bones: African divination method promoted by the Katush Motivational & Holistic Centre, in South Africa. The method features herbal remedies, and its theory posits instructive ancestral spirits. Sangomas are herbalists traditional or indigenous to South Africa; their duties may include divination.

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MediPatch Healthcare System (MediPatch system): Spinoff of homeopathy developed by Dr. Robert Jordan and characterized by the use of MediPatch Homeopathic Remedy Kits. Its theory posits a chakral energy system and twelve acupuncture meridian pulse points.

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classical homeopathy (unicist homeopathy):A form of homeopathy that involves extensive questioning of the patient by the practitioner, to determine the single remedy for that patient: the one therapeutic ideal that embraces mental, emotional, and physical levels.

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The law of similars (like cures like): According to this principle, the most effective potential remedy for a particular disease is that substance which in healthy persons has effects similar to the symptoms of the disease if the substance is applied in quantities that render it bioactive.

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The doctrine of the vital force: According to this principle, the vital force (for which Hahnemann coined the word dynamis) is the source of all biological phenomena, it becomes deranged during illness, and homeopathic remedies work by restoring it.

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Santeria (Santerismo): Subject of the 1987 occult thriller The Believers. Santeria is a combination of folk Catholicism and Yoruba (an African religion). The word Santeria literally means the worship of saints. Believers visit Santerian spiritual healers for medical help (e.g., to cure cancer).

All Santerian priests and priestesses are herbalists. Most of the plants they use serve both as remedies and as magical ingredients.

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plant alchemy (spagyrics): A form of herbalism based on astrologic and alchemic (parachemical) principles. One of the major goals of alchemy, a mystical art, was to find the elixir of life: a panacea that could make humans immortal or semidivine. Plant alchemy holds that three essentials - termed Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt - constitute the basis of all matter. , Sulfur is the masculine world soul, Mercury the feminine vital power (prana), and Salt the material vehicle. Spagyrists seek to extract these essentials from plants for use as remedies.

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Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV, Voll electroacupuncture): Method named after Reinhold Voll, M.D., of Germany. In the 1970s Voll invented the Dermatron(TM), a galvanometric device. EAV is a means of diagnosis and treatment whose principle is that a deviation of electrical resistance at any of over two thousand acupoints indicates a problem in the organ that corresponds to the acupoint. Practitioners treat imbalances by applying electricity to acupoints and/or with homeopathic remedies.

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karga puja (karga healing ritual): One of the shamanic healing ceremonies of the Tamangs, a group of Tibetan Buddhists in Nepal.

Karga is the Tamang word for a constellation of planets, and puja is a Nepalese word for ritual. Karga puja is a remedy for simultaneous soul loss and spirit possession: the Tamangs' major categories of mental illness. Tamang theory posits evil spirits, healing spirits, and planet divinities.

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Health Kinesiology (HK, HK system): An energy modality created by psychologist Jimmy Scott, Ph.D. HK is an offshoot of applied kinesiology. Its theory posits the Five Elements (Five Phases), a material layer of the aura, a meridian system, and reflex points for the Five Elements in the area of the navel. Corrective treatments may include crystals, gems, magnets, and homeopathic remedies.

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psionic medicine (psionics): Derivative of medical radiesthesia and radionics developed by physician George Laurence. It is a variation of telediagnosis.

Its theory embraces the homeopathic concept of miasms: three hereditary sources of all diseases resistant to homeopathic treatment. Miasms hinder vital energy flow in the body. Psionic medical practitioners place: a sample of blood from the patient on one part of a chart below the pendulum; samples (in homeopathic potency) of tissues, organs, and diseases in another part; and proposed homeopathic remedies in another. The way in which the pendulum moves determines whether such a remedy is appropriate.

The word psionics also refers to radionics and to applied psi (applied parapsychology), a field whose focus is the application of psychic abilities to ordinary living.

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VEGAtest method (Vega in vitro test method, Vega method): Variation of applied kinesiology developed by Helmet Schimmel, M.D., D.D.S., a German. it is a bioenergetic evaluation system for revealing disturbance patterns in a patient's electro-magnetic acupuncture system. Its theory posits Qi (inherent human bioenergy). The VEGAtest method featuresa multipurpose kinesiologic muscle test (see muscle testing) whereby practitioners can: (a) learn the key toxin causing bodily problems, and (b) select proper homeopathic remedies. practitioners use portable instruments that reportedly measure skin conductivity and can help in the location of areas of energetic imbalance or weakness.

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