Schuessler biochemic system of medicine (biochemic medicine, biochemic system of medicine, biochemic system of medicines, tissue salts therapy): Homeopathic system founded in the late nineteenth century by German physician Wilhelm Heinrich Schuessler (also spelled Schussler).

Schuessler held that all curable diseases were curable with minuscule doses of one or more of a dozen inorganic compounds, called cell salts or tissue salts: the fluoride, phosphate, and sulfate salts of calcium; the chloride, phosphate, and sulfate salts of sodium and potassium; the phosphate salts of iron and magnesium; and silicon dioxide.

(See also: Schuessler biochemic system of medicine, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

See also:

Orthomolecular medicine, Orthomolecular medicine - Method, Orthomolecular medicine - Popularity, Orthomolecular medicine - Relation to conventional medicine, Orthomolecular medicine - Evidence of effectiveness, Orthomolecular medicine - Evidence against effectiveness

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cell salt therapy (tissue salt therapy): Variation of the Schuessler biochemic system of medicine. It uses 45 cell salts.

(See also: Cell salt therapy - tissue salt therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-specific syndrome or culture-bound syndrome is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. There are no objective biochemical or structural alterations of body organs or functions, and the disease is not recognized in other cultures. While a substantial portion of mental disorders, in the way they are manifested and experienced, are at least partially conditioned by the culture in whi ...

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• Culture-specific syndrome - The identification of culture-specific syndromes
• Culture-specific syndrome - Western medical perspectives
• Culture-specific syndrome - Selected list of syndromes
• Culture-specific syndrome - Selected list of somatoform disorders

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Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, ecology, and evolution of plants. Botany - Scope and importance of botany. As with other life forms in biology, plant life can be studied from different perspectives, from the molecular, genetic and biochemical level through organel ...

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• Botany - Scope and importance of botany
• Botany - Feed the world
• Botany - Understand fundamental life processes
• Botany - Utilise medicine and materials
• Botany - Understand environmental changes
• Botany - History
• Botany - Early botany before 1945
• Botany - Modern botany since 1945

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Orthomolecular medicine or optimum nutrition, emphasizes the use of natural substances found in a healthy diet such as vitamins, dietary minerals, enzymes, amino acids, glyconutrients, and essential fatty acids in the prevention and treatment of diseases. Orthomolecular medicine focuses on the role of proper nutrition in relation to health. Nutrition comes first in medical diagnoses and treat ...

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• Orthomolecular medicine - Method
• Orthomolecular medicine - Popularity
• Orthomolecular medicine - Relation to conventional medicine
• Orthomolecular medicine - Evidence of effectiveness
• Orthomolecular medicine - Evidence against effectiveness

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Kinesiology is the study of human movement. The theory of kinesiology encompasses the study of the biological components of human movement including the anatomical, physiological, neurological, biochemical, and biomechanical. Also studied is the relationship between the quality of human movement and the overall health of the human organism. Theoretical knowledge of kinesiology is applied in many areas including physical therapy, occupational therapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, exercise physiology,massage therapy and ergon ...

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Energy psychology is not a specific field of study but rather refers generally to a collection of techniques and therapies that are often classed as alternative medicine. Energy psychology focuses on the interrelationship of emotion, behavior, psychopathology, and health through the electrical activity of the nervous system, acupuncture meridians, chakras, biofields, and morphogenetic fields. Energy psychology - Criticism. Like most forms of alternative medicine, the various techniques collectively k ...

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• Energy psychology - Criticism
• Energy psychology - Historical precursors to energy psychology
• Energy psychology - Modern schools of thought

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Bile (or gall) is a bitter, greenish-yellow alkaline fluid secreted by the liver of most vertebrates. In many species, it is stored in the gallbladder between meals and upon eating is discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. Bile - Physiology. Bile salts are steroid compounds (deoxycholic and cholic acid), often conjugated with glycine and taurine, and act to some extent as a detergent, helping to emulsify fats (increasing surface area to help enzyme action) ...

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• Bile - Physiology
• Bile - Four humours

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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) also known simply as Chinese medicine (Chinese: 中醫學, zhōngyī xué, or 中药学, zhōngyaò xué) is the name commonly given to a range of traditional medical practices used in China that have developed over the course of several thousand years of history. It is also regarded as an instance of oriental medicine, a term which may include other traditional Asian medical systems such as Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, and Mongolian medicine. Chinese medicine principally employs a method ...

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• Traditional Chinese medicine - Uses
• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM theory
• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM diagnostics
• Traditional Chinese medicine - Diagnostic techniques
• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM treatment techniques
• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM and science
• Traditional Chinese medicine - The question of efficaciousness
• Traditional Chinese medicine - Purported mechanism of action
• Traditional Chinese medicine - Safety of Chinese medicines
• Traditional Chinese medicine - The relationship between TCM and Western medicine
• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM and Animals

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Vitalism is the doctrine that "vital forces" are active in living organisms, so that life cannot be explained solely by mechanism. That element is often referred to as the "vital spark" or "energy" which some equate with the "soul". Vitalism has a long history in medical philosophies. Most traditional healing practices posited that disease was the result of some imbalance in the vital energies which distinguish living from non-livin ...

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Actinism is a property of radiation (particularly solar radiation) that leads to the production of photochemical effects. Actinism is derived from Greek with the meaning a radiant force. The word actinism seems to be used particularly in terms of imaging technology especially photography although it is used in medical literature for photo-biochemical effects such as a sunburn or radiation exposure from ultraviolet rays and in chemistry for containers that protect from photo-degradation. Chemical photography and ...

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The word adaptogen, coined by Russian Scientist Dr. Nicolai Lazarev, refers to a natural herb product that increases the body's resistance to stresses such as trauma, anxiety and bodily fatigue. The Guidelines Lazarev created for a herb to be considered an adaptogen are: 1. It must cause only minimal disorders in the body's physiological functions; 2. It must increase the body's resistance to adverse influences not by a specific action but by a wide range of physical, chemical, and biochemical factors; 3. It must have an overall normalizing effect, improvi ...

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Abram Hoffer (b. 1917) is a Canadian psychiatrist known for his use of nutritional and vitamin therapies in the treatment of schizophrenia and other diseases. This approach is known as orthomolecular medicine. He graduated with a B.S.A. from University of Saskatchewan with Great Distinction in 1938. He obtained a masters degree in agricultural chemistry in 1940 at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon followed by a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1944. His research concerned vitamins in cereals. Gaining an interest in human nutrition, Hoffer enrolled to study ...

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• Abram Hoffer - Reference
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Microbiology (in Greek micron = small and biologia = studying life) is the study of microorganisms, including viruses, viroids, prions, prokaryotes and simple eukaryotes (e.g. molds and fungi). Microbes represent ideal model systems for study due to the fact that many can be grown quickly and easily in genetically uniform cultures (e.g. agar), which allows for the production of biological materials (e.g. protein or DNA) in reasonable quantities quickly, safely and inexpensively. However, viruses, viroids, and prions cann ...

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Medicine is the branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and injury. It is both an area of knowledge – a science of body systems, their diseases and treatment – and the applied practice of that knowledge. The practice of medical care is shared between the medical profession (physicians or doctors) and other groups of professionals such as nurses and pharmacists (sometimes known as allied health professionals). Historically, only th ...

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• Medicine - History of medicine
• Medicine - Practice of medicine
• Medicine - Healthcare delivery systems
• Medicine - Patient-doctor relationship
• Medicine - Clinical skills
• Medicine - Settings where medical care is delivered
• Medicine - Branches of medicine
• Medicine - Basic sciences
• Medicine - Diagnostic specialties
• Medicine - Clinical disciplines
• Medicine - Interdisciplinary fields
• Medicine - Medical education
• Medicine - Medical devices
• Medicine - Legal restrictions
• Medicine - Criticism

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Diagnosis (from the Greek words dia = by and gnosis = knowledge) is the process of identifying a disease by its signs, symptoms and results of various diagnostic procedures. The conclusion reached through that process is also called a diagnosis. The term "diagnostic criteria" designates the combination of symptoms which allows the doctor to ascertain the diagnosis of the respective disease. Typically, someone with abnormal symptoms will consult a physician, who will then obtain a history of their pre ...

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• Diagnosis - History
• Diagnosis - Ancient Greece
• Diagnosis - The Oslerian ideal
• Diagnosis - Garrod's view
• Diagnosis - Present-day Oslerian practice
• Diagnosis - Influence of DNA technology
• Diagnosis - Hypothesis testing

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Hematophagy is the habit of certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words, haima, blood, and phagein, eat). Since blood is a fluid tissue rich in nutritious proteins and lipids and can be taken without enormous effort, hematophagy has evolved as a preferred form of feeding in many small animals, such as worms and arthropods. Some intestinal helminth worms, such as the Ascaris, feed on blood extracted from the capillaries of the gut and about 75% of all species of leeches (Hirudo medicinalis), a free-li ...

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• Hematophagy - Mechanism and evolution of hematophagy
• Hematophagy - Medical importance
• Hematophagy - Human hematophagy

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30-Day Body Purification Program: Group of purification techniques whose principle is that cleansing the body's internal ecosystem with herbs and pure nutrients is the key to restoring a healthy environment in and around the body.

The program embraces: aromatherapy; food combining a la Natural Hygiene and macrobiotics; the Schuessler biochemic system of medicine (tissue salts therapy); and a visualization technique wherein one visualizes dust, toxins, and the color gray leaving one's body.

(See also: 30-Day Body Purification Program, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

astrologic medicine (astral healing, astrological healing, astromedicine, medical astrology, medicinal astrology): System based on cosmobiology,a science whose principle is that specific mental and physical conditions correspond to the relative positions of celestial bodies. Astrologic medicine involves horoscopic astrology and the zodiacal man doctrine. The principle of horoscopic astrology--also called genethliacal astrology, horoscopy, natal astrology, popular astrology, and sun sign astrology--is that the relationship between the positions of planets and stars and the moment of one's birth determines lifelong personality. According to the zodiacal man doctrine, each of the twelve signs (houses) of the zodiac--constellations named Aries, Taurus, etc.--governs a different part of the human body. Proponents associate these zodiacal signs (sun signs) with bodily parts (e.g., organs) and systems and with predisposition to disease in different bodily parts. Certain planetary configurations can trigger disease in susceptible persons. Some proponents further posit a correlation of (a) sun signs and particular herbs, and (b) sun signs and the twelve cell salts of the Schuessler biochemic system of medicine. Astrologic medicine includes astrodiagnosis (see astrological diagnosis), prognosis, selection and timing of treatments (especially homeopathic remedies), and preventive medicine.

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