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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Bachelor Of Medicine: Encyclopedia - Bachelor Of Medicine
The Bachelor of Medicine, abbreviated BM, is an academic degree denoting the degree obtained after studying Medicine at University. In th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Course Medicine: Encyclopedia - Course Medicine
Another meaning in Medicine is the course of a disease, a description of the speed of evolution of the disease. Diseases can have an acut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Medicine: Encyclopedia - Ancient Medicine
Ancient Medicine is a treatise on medicine, written roughly 400 BC by Hippocrates. Category: Ancient Greek works Other related archivesA...   » Read the article

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 - Medicine Man: Encyclopedia - Medicine Man
"Medicine man" is an English term used to describe Native American religious figures; such individuals are analogous to shamans. The term...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayurvedic Medicine: Encyclopedia - Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda Sri Lankan Ayurvedic Tradition Other related archivesAyurveda, Sri Lankan Ayurvedic Tradition    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sports Medicine: Encyclopedia - Sports Medicine
Sports medicine or sport medicine is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of medicine which deals with the treatment and preventive care of ...   » 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 - Environmental Medicine: Encyclopedia - Environmental Medicine
Environmental medicine, also called clinical ecology, is a multidisciplinary field involving medicine, environmental science, chemistry a...   » 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 - 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 - Cough Medicine: Encyclopedia - Cough Medicine
A cough medicine is a drug used to treat coughing and related conditions. Dry coughs are treated with cough suppressants (antitussives) t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patent Medicine: Encyclopedia - Patent Medicine
Patent medicine is the term given to various medical compounds sold under a variety of names and labels, though they were for the most pa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calculus Medicine: Encyclopedia - Calculus Medicine
A calculus is a concretion of material (usually mineral salts) that forms in an organ or duct of the body. They may block the relevent du...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aviation Medicine: Encyclopedia - Aviation Medicine
Aviation medicine is a branch of medicine that applies medical knowledge to the human factors in aviation. Broadly defined, this subdisci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservation Medicine: Encyclopedia - Conservation Medicine
Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environm...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Medicine
MEDICINE: Native American term for magick, consciously focusing will (thought), form (physical) and emotion(desire) to effect change. ...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - Medicine Man Medicine Woman: Parapsychology Dictionary On Medicine Man Medicine Woman
Medicine Man Medicine Woman: A witchdoctor or shaman.   (See also: Medicine Man Medicine Woman , Psychic, Psychic Dictionary,...   » 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 - 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 - 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

Encyclopedia - History Of Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Medicine - General Review Of The History Of Medicine
History of medicine - Egyptian medicine. See main article: Ancient Egyptian medicine. Medical information contained in the Edwin Smith ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Islamic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Islamic Medicine - Early Islamic Medicine
Islamic medicine - Prophetic Medicine. Prophetic Medicine (al-tibb) was a genre of medical writing intended as an alternative to the G...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurvedic Medicine: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Hindu Medicine
Ayurvedic medicine , Hindu medicine ,  : The traditional Hindu system of medicine which is based on customs, beliefs, and prac...   » 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 - Chinese Medicine: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Chinese Medicine
Chinese Medicine: A holistic perspective on health and illness which treats the relationship of a symptom to the person as a whole. Tr...   » 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

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Complementary Medicine Dictionary On Chinese Medicine
CHINESE MEDICINE: Has much in common with other Eastern systems and is the foundation of many techniques currently used in the West. P...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurvedic Medicine: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedic Medicine: Ayurvedic medicine is India’s traditional, natural system of medicine that has been practiced for more than ...   » 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 - Herbal Medicine: Complementary Medicine Dictionary On Herbal Medicine
HERBAL MEDICINE: Herbs are used in both Eastern and Western medicine. The aim is to use all parts of the herb and particular emphasis ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kampo Medicine: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Kampo, Kanpo, Kanpo Medicine
Kampo medicine , Kampo, Kanpo, Kanpo medicine ,  : System of herbal medicine practiced in Japan by both herbalists and practit...   » 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 - 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

Encyclopedia - Naturopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturopathic Medicine - The Principles Of Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathy is based on six tenets or principles [1][2]: "The healing power of nature" "Identify and treat the cause" "First do no harm"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Internal Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Internal Medicine - Subspecialties Of Internal Medicine
Internists can choose to focus their practice on general internal medicine, or may take additional training to "subspecialize" in one of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Internal Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Internal Medicine - Subspecialties Of Internal Medicine
Internists can choose to focus their practice on general internal medicine, or may take additional training to "subspecialize" in one of ...   » 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

Dictionary - Traditional Medicine: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Ethnomedicine, Folk Medicine,
Traditional medicine , Ethnomedicine, Folk medicine, ,  Folk remedies, Folk remedy, Home remedies, Home remedy, Indigenous medic...   » 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

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

Encyclopedia - Sports Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Sports Medicine - Sports Medicine Today
Sports medicine has always been difficult to define because it is not a single specialty, but an area that involves health care professio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Occupational Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Occupational Medicine - What Is Occupational Medicine
Occupational medicine is the branch of clinical medicine most active in the field of occupational health. In the United States it is one ...   » 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 - Korean Medicine: Health And Healing Dictionary On Korean Medicine
Korean medicine: Form of Oriental medicine that encompasses acupuncture and moxibustion.   (See also: Korean medicine , Altern...   » 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 - 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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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

Encyclopedia - Osteopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Osteopathic Medicine - History
Osteopathic practice started just before the chiropractic movement in the Midwest of the United States in the nineteenth century. Early i...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

Encyclopedia - Hospital Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Hospital Medicine - Training
About 78 percent of practicing hospitalists are trained in general internal medicine. Another 4 percent are trained in an internal medici...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine Bundle: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Medicine Bundle
MEDICINE BUNDLE (medicine bag) - collection of stones, feathers, leaves or other personal objects of high electromagnetic vibration th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Energetic Medicine: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Energetic Medicine
ENERGETIC MEDICINE - medicine that deals with the blood and electromagnetic energy exchange through a change of diet; mental adjustmen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osteopathic Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Osteopathic Medicine - History
Osteopathic practice started just before the chiropractic movement in the Midwest of the United States in the nineteenth century. Early i...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

Encyclopedia - Hospital Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Hospital Medicine - History
Hospital medicine constitutes a relatively new phenomenon in American medicine. Almost unheard of a generation ago, this type of practice...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oriental Traditional Medicine: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Oriental Medicine
Oriental traditional medicine , Oriental medicine , Oriental traditional medicine, Traditional oriental medicine, Traditional orienta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Health And Healing Dictionary On Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine: originated over 3,000 years ago, but it became dogmatic and stagnated for centuries; overall its development has bee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patent Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Patent Medicine - Patent Medicines And Advertising
The phrase patent medicine comes from the early days of the marketing of medical elixirs, when those who found favour with royalty were i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine Wheel:: Health And Healing Dictionary On Medicine Wheel:
Medicine Wheel: Native American sacred circle representing the Universe and the balance of all creation. It is cast to contain, projec...   » 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

Encyclopedia - Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Medicine - Criticism
Criticism of medicine has a long history. In the Middle Ages, it was not considered a profession suitable for Christians, as disease was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Medicine - Medical Devices
See also the main articles: implant, artificial limbs, corrective lenses, cochlear implants, ocular prosthetics, facial prosthetics, soma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Medicine - Medical Education
Main articles: Medical education and Medical school Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitione...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Medicine - Medical Education
See also Medical doctor (BE), Physician (AE), and Medical school. Medical training involves several years of university study followed by...   » Read the article