ORTHOMOLECULAR THERAPY: Orthomolecular therapy is the treatment of disease by varying the concentration of substances (nutrients--vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and others) normally present in the human body for good health.

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ORTHOMOLECULAR THERAPY: Developed by Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling who postulated that provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

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Orthomolecular Therapy: Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling coined this term to describe the therapeutic use of naturally occurring substances, especially nutrients and vitamins, as supplements to maintain health or combat disease.

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Megavitamin therapy uses large amounts of vitamins, often several times greater than the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) to treat many types of diseases and to extend life. It is often used in conjunction with orthomolecular medicine. Effects of the therapy are controversial. It was advocated, though not developed by chemist Linus Pauling in the 1960's and works under the principle that administration of large doses of vitamins to combat conditions considered wholly or in part due to their deficiency. Adminstration of large doses of Vitamin A a ...

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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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orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy): An approach to therapy whose centerpiece is megavitamin therapy. Orthomolecular medicine encompasses hair analysis, orthomolecular nutrition (a form of megavitamin therapy), and orthomolecular psychiatry. Linus Carl Pauling, Ph.D. (1901-1994), coined the word orthomolecular. The prefix ortho- means straight, and the implicit meaning of orthomolecular is to straighten (correct) concentrations of specific molecules. The primary principle of orthomolecular medicine is that nutrition is the foremost consideration in diagnosis and treatment. Its focus is normalizing the balance of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and similar substances in the body.

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orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy): An approach to therapy whose centerpiece is megavitamin therapy.

Orthomolecular medicine encompasses hair analysis, orthomolecular nutrition (a form of megavitamin therapy), and orthomolecular psychiatry. Linus Carl Pauling, Ph.D. (1901-1994), coined the word orthomolecular.

The prefix ortho- means straight, and the implicit meaning of orthomolecular is to straighten (correct) concentrations of specific molecules. The primary principle of orthomolecular medicine is that nutrition is the foremost consideration in diagnosis and treatment. Its focus is normalizing the balance of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and similar substances in the body.

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ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE: a form of nutrient therapy that uses combinations of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids normally found in the body to maintain good health and to treat specific conditions, such as asthma, heart disease, depression, and schizophrenia. "Orthomolecular" means an approach based on a correct (ortho) balance of substances present in the body.

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In the late 1950s, Pauling worked on the role of enzymes in brain function, believing that mental illness may be partly caused by enzyme dysfunction. It wasn't until he read "Niacin Therapy in Psychiatry" by Abram Hoffer in 1965 that he realized that vitamins might have important biochemical effects unrelated to their prevention of associated deficiency diseases. Pauling's influential paper, "Orthomolecular Psychiatry", was published in the journal Science in 1968. Pauling coined the term "orthomolecular" to refer to the practice of varying the concentration of substan ...

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In 1959, Gerson died of pneumonia at his home in New York City [2]. Schweitzer, his lifelong friend and patient, called Gerson "a medical genius who walked among us." Schweitzer (diabetes), his wife Helene (lung TB), and his daughter Rhena were all patients who claimed to be healed by Gerson. In 2005, Gerson was inducted, along with seven other major contributors to natural medicine, into the Hall of Fame of the International Society of Orthomolecular Medicine, the first such honor ever bestowed on him. Gerson's ground-breaking book, ...

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Orthomolecular Medicine  - The treatment or prevention of disease by the use of large amounts of normally occurring substances, most often vitamins.

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vibrational medicine (energetic medicine, energetics medicine, energy medicine, subtle-energy medicine, vibrational healing, vibrational therapies): Healing philosophy whose main tenet is that humans are dynamic energy systems (body/mind/spirit complexes) and reflect evolutionary patterns of soul growth.

Its principles include the following:

(a)   Health and illness originate in subtle energy systems.

(b)  These systems coordinate the life-force and the physical body.

(c)   Emotions, spirituality, and nutritional and environmental factors affect the subtle energy systems.

Vibrational medicine embraces acupuncture, aromatherapy, Bach flower therapy, chakra rebalancing, channeling, color breathing, color therapy, crystal healing, absent healing, Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV), etheric touch, flower essence therapy, homeopathy, Kirlian photography, laserpuncture, the laying on of hands, meridian therapy, mesmerism, moxibustion, orthomolecular medicine, Past-life Regression, Polarity Therapy, psychic healing, psychic surgery, radionics, the Simonton method, sonopuncture, Toning, Transcendental Meditation, and Therapeutic Touch.

The expressions energy healing, energy work, and energetic healing work appear synonymous with vibrational medicine.

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MEGAVITAMIN THERAPY: See Orthomolecular medicine.

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naturopathy (natural healing, natural health, natural medicine, natural therapies, nature cure, naturology, naturopathic healing, naturopathic health care, naturopathic medicine): Miscellany that encompasses auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture), Ayurveda, balneotherapy, bioelectronic diagnosis, biofeedback, cupping, electroacupuncture, fasting, the Grape Cure (and other mono-diets), hair analysis, herbalism, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, internal hydrotherapy (e.g., colonic irrigation), iridology, Jin Shin Do, Jungian psychology, macrobiotics, moxibustion, Oriental medicine, Ortho-Bionomy, orthomolecular psychiatry, thalassotherapy, Tuina, and zone therapy.

Naturopathy originated in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in Germany. Dr. John H. Scheel, a German-born homeopath, coined the word naturopathy in 1895, when he opened the Sanitarium Badekur in New York. Vitalism is fundamental to naturopathy.

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