Dictionary - Ancient Medicine: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Chinese And Greek
ANCIENT MEDICINE: CHINESE AND GREEK   Chinese According to the ancient Chinese system of philosophy, the human body is governed ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Feng Shui: Health And Healing Dictionary On Feng Shui
FENG SHUI an ancient Chinese practice of configuring home or work environments to promote health, happiness, prosperity. Feng shui con...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Health And Healing Dictionary On Ayurveda
Ayurveda: (ancient Indian medicine, Vedic medicine): Ancient Hindu medical-metaphysical healing science based on the harmony of body, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupressure: Health And Healing Dictionary On Acupressure
Acupressure Based on the principles of acupuncture, this ancient Chinese technique involves the use of finger pressure (rather than ne...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tai Chi: Health And Healing Dictionary On Tai Chi
Tai chi (other names: Tai chi chuan, Tai Ji, tai ji chuan, Tai Ji Juan, Tai ji quan, Taiqi): Variation of self-healing. Tai chi is an ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reiki: Health And Healing Dictionary On Reiki
Reiki Practitioners of this ancient Tibetan healing system use light hand placements to channel healing energies to the recipient. Whi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupressure: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Acupressure
ACUPRESSURE Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to press key points on the surface of the skin to stimulate th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vastu Shastra: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Vastu Shastra
Vastu Shastra Vastu Shastra is an ancient science energy flow throughout the house/office/factory that allows inflow of fresh air and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cupping: Alternative Health Dictionary On Cupping
cupping (cupping method, cupping therapy; called the horn method in ancient China): Variable method akin to moxabustion.   The p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Therapeutic Touch: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Therapeutic Touch
THERAPEUTIC TOUCH Developed through the collaboration of a nursing professor and a spiritual healer, Therapeutic Touch is based on anc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Druidism: Health And Healing Dictionary On Druidism
Druidism: An ancient Celtic religion which has undergone a modern revival.   (See also: Druidism , Alternative Health, Body Mi...   » 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 - Hieroglyph: Health And Healing Dictionary On Hieroglyph
Hieroglyph: A pictographic character in the ancient Egyptian writing system, invented before 3000 BC. Today almost any pictographic ch...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedic Astrology: Health And Healing Dictionary On Vedic Astrology
Vedic Astrology: Ancient system that allegedly helps to resolve doubts concerning children, health, spiritual growth, and other subjec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Confucius: Health And Healing Dictionary On Confucius
Confucius: (551-479 BC) The most famous philosopher of ancient China. According to tradition, he was born in Lu, China. Author of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tibetan Reiki:: Health And Healing Dictionary On Tibetan Reiki:
Tibetan Reiki: Variation of and extension to Reiki. Tibetan Reiki is supposedly of ancient Tibetan origin.   (See also: Tibeta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pranic Healing: Holistic Health Dictionary On Energy - Pranic Healing
Energy: Pranic Healing Prana (pronounced PRAH-nah) is a Sanskrit word meaning "life-force," the invisible bio-energy or vita...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupressure: Holistic Health Therapy Dictionary On Acupressure
ACUPRESSURE: Based on the principles of acupuncture, this ancient Chinese technique involves the use of finger pressure, rather than n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pranic Healing: Alternative Health Dictionary On Pranic Healing
Pranic Healing (bioplasmic healing, radiatory healing): ancient science and art whose modern founder is Choa Kok Sui. Pranic Healing u...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Traditional Chinese Medicine: Natural Health Dictionary On Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine: An ancient healing system that views the body as an integrated whole, so problems in one area are seen t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yoga: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Yoga
YOGA Means union, or the yoking together of body and spirit. It is one of the more ancient methods of healing and of raising conscious...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tai Chi: Holistic Health Dictionary On Tai Chi
TAI CHI Tai Chi (pronounced tie-chee) emphasizes complete relaxation, and is essentially a form of mediation, or what has been called ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupuncture: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Acupuncture
ACUPUNCTURE Acupuncture is an ancient oriental healing technique based on the Taoist philosophy of balancing energy meridians within t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Feng Shui: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Feng Shui
FENG SHUI (pronounced Fung Schway) Also known as Geomancy, is the art of placement. The meaning of which, is literally, “wind an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Ayurveda
Ayurveda is the oldest surviving complete medical system in the world. Derived from its ancient Sanskrit roots - ‘ayus' (life) a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Herbology: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Herbology
HERBOLOGY Also known as HERBALISM, is found in practically all the ancient cultures throughout the world, and utilizes plants and tree...   » 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 - Accupuncture: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Accupuncture
ACCUPUNCTURE: ·      The modern name is derived from the Latin words Acus (needle) and Punctura (pene...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Enneagram System: Alternative Health Dictionary On Enneagram System
Enneagram system (Enneagram, Enneatype system): System of spiritual psychology based on an ancient Sufi typology of nine (ennea in Gre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sex: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Sex And Relationships
Sex & Ayurveda Sex has always been an issue of dichotomy. An integral part of our lives and essential for the continuation of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reiki: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Reiki
REIKI: ·      Discovered and propounded by Dr.Mikao Usui in 1800, it is the ancient Japanese art of he...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Traditional Chinese Medicine: Complementary Medicine Dictionary On Traditional Chinese Medicine
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE: The basis of much ancient healing wisdom which also shows a similarity to other traditional in both thou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupressure: Holistic Treatment Dictionary On Acupressure
Acupressure: An ancient Chinese system of healing based on applying finger pressure and massage to meridians (energy points) which rel...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qigong: Alternative Health Dictionary On Qigong
Qigong (also spelled chi gong, and chi gung; originally called daoyin): 1. (Chi Kung, Chinese Energetic healing, Chinese Qigong thera...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tai Chi: Alternative Health Dictionary On Tai Chi
tai chi (tai chi chuan, Tai Ji, tai ji chuan, Tai Ji Juan, tai ji quan, Taiqi): A variation of self-healing. Tai chi is an ancient, yo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Energetic Healing: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Chinese Energetic Healing
CHINESE ENERGETIC HEALING Is yet another aspect of the comprehensive approach that Ancient China developed thousands of years ago. Thi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reiki: Holistic Health Therapy Dictionary On Reiki
REIKI: practitioners of this ancient Tibetan healing system use light hand placements to transmit healing energies to the recipient. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shamanism: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Shamanism
Shamanism: This ancient method of healing was practiced by healers (shamans). Combining ancient and modern healing/wisdom practices, t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Foot Reflexology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Foot Reflexology
Foot Reflexology: An ancient cousin of acupuncture. It involves pressing reflex areas on the feet. Its principle is that these areas c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jin Shin Jyutsu: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Jin Shin Jyutsu
Jin Shin Jyutsu An ancient Japanese healing art rediscovered by Jiro Muri in the early 1900's and brought to America by Mary Burmeiste...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ear Candling/: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Ear Candling, Ear Coning
EAR CANDLING/EAR CONING Is an ancient technique of creating a long cone or funnel usually out of cotton muslin, which has been soaked ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupuncture: Alternative Medicine Dictionary Ii On Acupuncture
Acupuncture: An ancient element of traditional Chinese medicine. This practice can balance the flow of vital life energy, or qi throug...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupuncture: Natural Health Dictionary On Acupuncture
Acupuncture: An ancient Chinese technique based on the belief that life energy flows through channels in the body known as meridians. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Feng Shui: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Feng Shui
FENG SHUI Feng shui (translated as “wind and water”) is the Chinese system of balancing the energy patterns of the physica...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Toning: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Toning
Toning Vocalizing long, sustained sounds using a vowel, a consonant, or a combination of both without melody, words, beat or rhythm. T...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tibetan Pulsing Healing: Alternative Health Dictionary On Tibetan Pulsing Healing
Tibetan Pulsing Healing (Tibetan Pulsing): Modern approach to an ancient Tibetan technique. It is a form of bodywork whose principle i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amma: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Amma, Anma
AMMA/ANMA Amma (sometimes spelled anma) is the traditional word for massage in the Japanese language. It comes from the Chinese tradit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mantras: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Mantras
Mantras Handed down since ancient times by religious seers who had attained self-realization by chanting them, mantras are words or sy...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Music Therapy  : Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Music Therapy  
Music Therapy   Music therapy is a scientific method of effective cures of disease through the power of music. It restores, maint...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pneumo-acupuncture: Alternative Health Dictionary On Pneumo-acupuncture
pneumo-acupuncture: Technique described in ancient Chinese literature. It involves injecting air under the skin.   (See also: ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Classical Five Element Acupuncture: Alternative Health Dictionary On Classical Five Element Acupuncture
Classical Five Element Acupuncture: Ancient Chinese healing art. One of its principles is that Spirit is a fundamental aspect in the m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Ayurveda
Ayurveda is the ancient traditional healing system of India. More than 5,000 years old, Ayurveda is the science of developing health, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nuat Thai: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Nuat Thai
NUAT THAI This form of traditional Thai medical massage that originated in the Vajrayana Yogic medicine of Tibet. Translated and creat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hydrotherapy: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Hydrotherapy
HYDROTHERAPY Although ancient Greece and Rome had both adopted the beliefs that water had healing properties, it was the Romans to fir...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupuncture: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese system of healing that views health as the balance within an individual's healing energy, or chi. Ac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reflexology: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Reflexology
REFLEXOLOGY Based on an ancient Chinese therapy, reflexology involves manipulation of specific reflex areas in the foot, hands, and ea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qigong: Holistic Health Dictionary On Energy - Qigong
Energy: Qigong The word Qigong (pronounced CHEE-gung) is a combination of two ideas: "Qi" means air, breath of life, or vit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chi Kung, Qi Gong: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Chi Kung, Qi Gong
CHI KUNG (QI GONG) Or “Energy Control,” dates back to over 4,000 years, and is the art of developing and utilizing univers...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reflexology: Holistic Treatment Dictionary On Reflexology
Reflexology: An ancient Chinese technique in which specific pressure points (usually on the feet, but also on the hands and ears) are ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holotropic Breathwork: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Holotropic Breathwork
HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK Developed by Dr. Stanislov Grof, a psychiatrist working with people in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qigong: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Qigong (gi Gong, Chi-kung)
Qigong (gi gong and chi-kung): ancient Chinese exercise that stimulates and balances the flow of qi, or vital life energy by using bre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Unani: Alternative Health Dictionary On Unani
Unani (Unani medicine, Unani system of medicine, Unani Tibb): System based on the ancient Greek theory of four basic elements - air, e...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Feng Shui: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Feng Shui
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of environmental design and placement. Whereas tai chi and acupuncture modify and balance chi wit...   » 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 - Seichim: Alternative Health Dictionary On Seichim
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Dictionary - Acupuncture: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Acupuncture
Acupuncture: a branch of ancient Chinese medicine that treats many conditions including diseases, drug or alcohol addiction, and sinus...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shabda Yoga: Alternative Health Dictionary On Shabda Yoga
Shabda Yoga: An ancient method that involves chanting, devotional music, and simple hatha-yoga and kundalini-yoga postures and techniq...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siddha: Alternative Health Dictionary On Siddha
Siddha (Saiva school of medicine, Siddha medicine, Siddha system, Siddha system of medicine): Tamil system related to Ayurveda and of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurvedic Massage: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Ayurvedic Massage
AYURVEDIC MASSAGE An ayurvedic massage is one part of the traditional detoxification and rejuvenation program of India called panchaka...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jyotish: Alternative Health Dictionary On Jyotish
Vedic Astrology (Jyotish, jyotisha): Ancient system that helps to resolve doubts concerning children, health, spiritual growth, and ot...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ma-uri: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Ma-uri
Ma-Uri Massage treatment using knuckles and elbows. Originates from ancient New Zeland tribe Ma-Uri. The masseur uses knuckles and elb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Feng Shui: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Feng Shui
Feng Shui: This ancient Chinese art holds that arranging one’s environment into certain harmonious patterns can bring a sense of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Labyrinths: Holistic Health Dictionary On Labyrinths
LABYRINTHS A labyrinth (pronounced LAB-ear-inth) is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness. It combines the imagery of the circle...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedic Hand Analysis: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Vedic Hand Analysis
Vedic Hand Analysis: Ancient Indian discipline, termed “Hasta Samudrika Shastra” in Sanskrit. The hand is a mirror of a pe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cranial Osteopathy: Complementary Medicine Dictionary On Cranial Osteopathy
CRANIAL OSTEOPATHY: Developed by Dr William Sutherland in the 1930’s, as an extension of the ancient Chinese Tuina and Osteopath...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jin Shin Do: Holistic Treatment Dictionary On Jin Shin Do
Jin Shin Do: An ancient art of harmonizing life energy within the body by placing fingertips over clothing on designated areas. &nbs...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alternative Health: Related Archives And Dictionary A - An
See also these related archives: A Course in Miracles, Abhyanga, Abjad, Aboukra, Absent healing, Accupressure, Accupuncture, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - T’ai Chi: Natural Health Dictionary On Tai Chi
T’ai Chi: An ancient Chinese meditative and martial art – often referred to as “meditation in motion” – ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Voodoo: Alternative Health Dictionary On Voodoo
Vodou (Haitian Vodou, vodoun, vodun, voodoo, voodooism, Voudoun): Fusion of Roman Catholicism and ancient African polytheism and ances...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Foot Zone Therapy: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Foot Zone Therapy
FOOT ZONE THERAPY Foot zone therapy is based on the premise that energy flows through the body in meridians from the brain to the feet...   » Read the article

Article - Sweat Lodge: Temazcal I/iii - The Traditional Mexican Sweat Bath
The Native American Sweat Lodge, Temazcal, is an ancient practice from the native indians of America; a sacred ritual for Healing and Pu...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Healing: Bhakthi Sankeertan - Healing Through Music
From the ancient times, music is something that has put people, in touch with their inner most feelings. Different kind of music works up...   » Read the article

Article - Native American Spirituality: Native American Medicine Wheel Ceremony On May 8th 2004
In 1999, Bennie LeBeau of the Eastern Shoshone tribe began to experience a torrent of dreams and visions. The visions directed him to set...   » Read the article

Article - Color Energy Therapy: A Newly Emerging, Ancient Healing Modality
Color Energy Therapy The color therapist sees the universe as a hologram, as a multi-faceted gem, and views the person he/she is workin...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Dance: Dance In Spiritual Indian Art
Art is a collaboration between God and man, raising him to the exclusive band of creators and taking him deeply within and around his han...   » Read the article

Article - Dream Healing: Asclepius And Dream Healing
Asclepius was the Greek god of healing. His healing sanctuaries were found throughout the known Hellenic world. This tradition was active...   » Read the article

Article - Chanting: The Healing Powers Of Ancient Chants  
The sages who gave us the ancient Vedic mantras and hymns were evolved beings who had either attained or come very close to a state of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Quick Links To Archives Related To Alternative Health Dictionary A
Popular archives related to Alternative Health Ayurveda, Chakra, Aura, Kundalini, Kundalini Yoga, Meditation, Spiritual Grow...   » Read the article