Dictionary of complementary and alternative medicine
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- Aromatherapy - The use of aromatic plant oils, including essential oils, for psychological and physical well-being.
- Anthroposophic medicine - A form of complementary medicine developed by Rudolf Steiner that combines spiritual insights with practical approaches to health.
- Alexander technique - A process that teaches how to properly coordinate body and mind to release harmful tension and improve posture, coordination, and general health.
B[edit | edit source]
- Bach flower remedies - A collection of essences used in complementary medicine that is derived from flowers and used to treat various emotional conditions.
- Balneotherapy - Treatment of disease by bathing, typically in hot springs and other naturally mineral-rich waters.
- Biologically based practices - This involves the use of substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, and vitamins.
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- Craniosacral therapy - A form of bodywork or alternative therapy that uses gentle touch to palpate the synarthrodial joints of the cranium.
- Chinese herbal medicine - The use of herbs in traditional Chinese medicine with the aim to restore balance to the body’s qi, yin, and yang.
- Crystal healing - An alternative medical technique that employs stones and crystals as healing tools.
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- Detoxification - Alternative medical treatment which proponents claim to rid the body of "toxins" – accumulated harmful substances that allegedly exert undesirable effects on individual health.
- Dowsing - A type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus.
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- Energy medicine - Healing by channeling a form of energy through the hands of the practitioner to the patient in order to assist healing or restore wellness.
- Essential oils - Concentrated hydrophobic liquids containing volatile aroma compounds from plants, used in aromatherapy and other alternative medical practices.
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- Fasting - The practice of abstaining from all or some kinds of food or drink, often used as a method of cleansing the body or as a spiritual practice.
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- Guided imagery - A program of directed thoughts and suggestions that guide your imagination toward a relaxed, focused state.
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- Homeopathy - A system of alternative medicine in which ailments are treated by minute doses of natural substances that in larger amounts would produce symptoms of the ailment.
- Hydrotherapy - The use of water to treat a disease or to maintain health, involving methods like baths, saunas, douches, and wraps.
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- Integrative medicine - Combining conventional medical treatments with alternative or complementary ones that have been shown to be effective and are often derived from different cultural or historical contexts.
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- Mind-body interventions - Techniques designed to enhance the mind's positive impact on the body, including stress reduction methods like meditation and biofeedback.
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- Naturopathic medicine - A system that focuses on natural remedies and the body's ability to heal and maintain itself.
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- Osteopathy - A type of alternative medicine that emphasizes physical manipulation of the body's muscle tissue and bones.
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- Phytotherapy - The study of the use of extracts from natural origin as medicines or health-promoting agents.
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- Qi gong - A system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial-arts training.
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- Reflexology - An alternative medicine involving application of pressure to the feet and hands with specific thumb, finger, and hand techniques without the use of oil or lotion.
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- Shiatsu - A form of Japanese bodywork based on concepts in traditional Chinese medicine, including the use of finger pressure.
- Spiritual healing - A form of healing that seeks to restore balance to the soul or spirit in order to promote physical health.
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- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) - A holistic approach to health and healing that uses a variety of practices, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, and qigong, based on traditional Chinese beliefs.
- Tai chi - An internal Chinese martial art practiced for both its defense training, its health benefits and meditation.
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- Yoga - A group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control and still the mind.
Z[edit | edit source]
- Zero balancing - A body-mind system of healing which combines Western medical knowledge of bone and muscle structures with Eastern concepts of energy and healing.
Alternative medicine articles[edit | edit source]
- (Un)well
- 24 flavors
- AKTIP (therapeutic institute)
- ALCAT test
- Abhyanga
- Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
- Activated charcoal cleanse
- Acupuncture
- Adrenal fatigue
- Aerotoxic syndrome
- Agada
- Age management medicine
- Albularyo
- Alfredo Bowman
- Alkaline diet (alternative medicine)
- Alliance for Natural Health
- Alliance for Natural Health USA
- Alternative cancer treatments
- Alternative medicine
- Alternative medicine degrees
- Alternative treatments used for the common cold
- Alternative veterinary medicine
- American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
- American Academy of Environmental Medicine
- American College of Orgonomy
- Amy Foxx-Orenstein
- Amygdalin
- Andrew Weil
- Ann Boyce
- Anthroposophic medicine
- Anti-vaccine activism
- Apple cider vinegar
- Applied kinesiology
- Armenicum
- Aromatherapy
- Arthur Guirdham
- Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators
- Auriculotherapy
- Autism Research Institute
- Autologous blood therapy
- Ayuvrutta
- BDORT
- BGR-34
- Bach flower remedies
- Bacopa monnieri
- Balanced ligamentous tension
- Balinese massage
- Barbara O'Neill
- Basti (Panchakarma)
- Belleruth Naparstek
- Bernie S. Siegel
- Bhumka
- Big Pharma conspiracy theories
- Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
- Biological terrain assessment
- Biomesotherapy
- Bioresonance therapy
- Bismacine
- Black salve
- Blood irradiation therapy
- Bowen technique
- Breathwork
- Broda Otto Barnes
- Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae
- Bôtchô
- COVID-19 misinformation
- Calcium 2-aminoethylphosphate
- Camel urine
- Canadian Osteopathic Association
- Candida hypersensitivity
- Canine cancer detection
- Carctol
- Carmelite Water
- Ch'ang Ming
- Charcoal biscuit
- Chelation therapy
- Cheongsimhwan
- Chicken-blood therapy
- Chinese herbology
- Choosing Wisely
- Christian Science
- Christian de la Huerta
- Christiane Northrup
- Chronic Lyme disease
- Churna
- Cinnamon tea
- Clark Stanley
- Clayton College of Natural Health
- Climatotherapy
- Clinical ecology
- Coding (therapy)
- Commission E
- Complementary Medicine Evaluation Programme
- Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council
- Conscious breathing
- Continuum (magazine)
- Correactology
- Corvalol
- Covid-Organics
- Craniosacral therapy
- Cryotherapy
- Cultural effects of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic
- Cupping therapy
- DOCARE
- Daniel Amen
- Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong
- Dennis Harris (alternative medicine)
- Depurative
- Detoxification foot baths
- Dhātu (Ayurveda)
- Dinacharya
- Discolysis
- Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories
- Disease mongering
- Do You Believe in Magic? (book)
- Doctor's Data
- Doktor Koster's Antigaspills
- Dorn method
- Dosha
- Dr. Dot
- Drakshasava
- Dry needling
- Duct tape occlusion therapy
- Duesberg hypothesis
- Dōmei Yakazu
- E. B. Nash
- East West College of Natural Medicine
- Ebola misinformation
- Eddie Tagoe
- Effects of meditation
- Elastic therapeutic tape
- Electrohomeopathy
- Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
- Eli Jones
- Ellagic acid
- Elvira Bierbach
- Emmenagogue
- Emu oil
- Enema
- Energy Work
- Energy medicine
- Erlong Zuoci Wan
- Estrogen dominance
- Ethnoveterinary medicine
- FDA Most Wanted Fugitives
- Faith healing
- Family Constellations
- Family centered care
- Fasting spittle
- Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
- Feldenkrais Method
- Finley Ellingwood
- Food combining
- Forrest Yoga
- Fragmenta de viribus
- Francesco Racanelli
- Frequency specific microcurrent
- Functional medicine
- GMO conspiracy theories
- Galina Shatalova
- Gamat
- Gan mao ling
- Gemmotherapy
- Georgetown University Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program
- Germ theory denialism
- Germaine Cousin-Zermatten
- Gerovital
- Goji tea
- Goop (company)
- Gou pi gao
- Grinberg Method
- Gua sha
- Guided imagery
- Gulkand
- HGH controversies
- Hair analysis (alternative medicine)
- Hallwang Clinic
- Halotherapy
- Hara (tanden)
- Harald Walach
- Haruchika Noguchi
- Harvey Wickes Felter
- Health freedom movement
- Henan University of Chinese Medicine
- Henry Harrower
- Henry S. Tanner (doctor)
- Herbal medicine
- Heroic Hearts Project
- Heroin-assisted treatment
- Heubad
- Hinaishin
- Hippocrates Health Institute
- History of alternative medicine
- Hold-up (2020 film)
- Holistic dentistry
- Holistic nursing
- Homeopathy
- Honeygar
- Human placentophagy
- Huntington University of Health Sciences
- Hydrotherapy
- Hypnodermatology
- ID2020
- Ian Gawler
- Ida Rolf
- Ideokinesis
- Indigo children
- Infrared sauna
- Institute for Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
- Institute for Music and Neurologic Function
- Insulin potentiation therapy
- International Academy of Medical Acupuncture
- International Herb Symposium
- International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
- International Society of Acupuncture
- Intravenous ascorbic acid
- Irene Gauthier
- Iridology
- Irlen syndrome
- Isaac Swainson
- Ishinpō
- Isolation tank
- Issels treatment
- Itsuo Tsuda
- Ivanovism
- Ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Jasper Lawrence
- Jean Ruel
- Jeanne Achterberg
- Jessica Ainscough
- Jin Qian Cao
- Jintan (Japanese medicine)
- Joel Fuhrman
- John William Fyfe
- Jonathan Leary
- Josef Zezulka
- Kambo (drug)
- Kampo
- Kappo
- Katsuzō Nishi
- Ken Walker (physician)
- Kent Holtorf
- King's American Dispensatory
- Klosterfrau Melissengeist
- Kombucha
- Korean bug
- Kyung-ok-ko
- Lacticaseibacillus casei
- Lair Ribeiro
- Lancet MMR autism fraud
- Large intestine (Chinese medicine)
- Leaky gut syndrome
- Levashovism
- Lifestyle disease
- Lilou Macé
- List of diagnoses characterized as pseudoscience
- List of forms of alternative medicine
- List of people in alternative medicine
- List of questionable diagnostic tests
- List of therapies
- List of unproven methods against COVID-19
- Lithia water
- Lithium orotate
- Live blood analysis
- Low-dose chemotherapy
- Low-level laser therapy
- Lymphatic pump
- MMR vaccine and autism
- MV-media
- Macrobiotic diet
- Macrophagic myofasciitis
- Madhava-kara
- Mailuoning
- Malas (Ayurveda)
- Manfred Curry
- Manual lymphatic drainage
- Manual therapy
- Manuel Pinto Coelho
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Matthaeus Platearius
- Maytenus robusta
- Medbed
- Medical Racism: The New Apartheid
- Medical cannibalism
- Medical intuitive
- Medical uses of silver
- Meriandra dianthera
- Mesotherapy
- Midwest College of Oriental Medicine
- Mien Shiang
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction
- Mind–body interventions
- Ministry of Ayush
- Miracle Mineral Supplement
- Mirko Beljanski
- Moerman Therapy
- Mohammad Ali Taheri
- Morgellons
- Moxibustion
- Much–Holzmann reaction
- Multiple chemical sensitivity
- Muriel Day
- Myers' cocktail
- Naftalan oil
- Nan Jing (Chinese medicine)
- Nasya
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
- National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
- National Health Federation
- National University of Natural Medicine
- National Vaccine Information Center
- Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About
- Natural News
- Natural Standard
- Naturopathy
- Negative air ionization therapy
- Neo-Hippocratism
- Neural therapy
- Neurofeedback
- Neuromonics
- Nexavir
- Nishi Shiki
- Non-celiac gluten sensitivity
- Nya Dagbladet
- O. Carl Simonton
- Occult Science in Medicine
- Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Olbas Oil
- One Retreats
- Oracionista
- Oral polio vaccine AIDS hypothesis
- Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
- Orthomolecular medicine
- Orthopathy
- Osteomyology
- Osteopathy
- Otherside Farms
- Ozone therapy
- PC-SPES
- Pagtatawas
- Pangamic acid
- Pap-Ion Magnetic Inductor
- Paul Petard
- Pericardium (Chinese medicine)
- Petitgrain
- Phosphorylethanolamine
- Phytoncide
- Plandemic
- Planet Lockdown
- Pneumatherapy
- Poly-MVA
- Polyherbal formulation
- Positive disintegration
- Potentilla reptans
- Potion
- Power Balance
- Pressure point
- Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
- Primary spine practitioner
- Prokarin
- Prolotherapy
- Propagermanium
- Psychedelic retreats
- Psychedelic therapy
- Psychic surgery
- Qigong
- Qingfei Yihuo Wan
- Quack Miranda warning
- Quackery
- Quantum healing
- Radionics
- Radium ore Revigator
- Radovan Karadžić
- Rasashastra
- Rebirthing (breathwork)
- Reflex locomotion
- Regulation of alternative medicine
- Rehmannia glutinosa
- Rejuvenation
- Research Council for Complementary Medicine
- Robert B. Strecker
- Rolfing
- Rope worms
- Rosen Method Bodywork
- Rovenia M. Brock
- Rubefacient
- Ruediger Dahlke
- SARS conspiracy theory
- Safi (medicine)
- Samuel Thomson
- San Jiao
- Schizonepeta
- Seasilver
- Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine
- Secret practice
- See Clearly Method
- Seed cycling
- Sekkotsu
- Self-healing
- Senior Medicare Patrols
- Sensory processing disorder
- Sheng Hua Tang
- Shiatsu
- Shinshin-tōitsu-dō
- Shodhana
- Shou Wu Chih
- Sijunzi Tang Wan
- Small intestine (Chinese medicine)
- Smallwood Report
- Smoked plum
- Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine
- Society for Integrative Oncology
- Sociology of health and illness
- Soma Mukhopadhyay
- Somatic experiencing
- Somatics
- Sophrology
- Spagyric
- Speleotherapy
- Spleen (Chinese medicine)
- Ssanghwa-tang
- St. Anselm's art
- Stamina therapy
- Stan Jones (Libertarian politician)
- Stanley Burroughs
- Stefan Falimierz
- Stephanie Seneff
- Steven Hotze
- Stomach (Chinese medicine)
- Stone massage
- Strychnos nux-vomica
- Suckers (book)
- Sungazing
- Svedana
- Swank diet
- Systems medicine
- Sì miào wán
- Tar water
- Tension myositis syndrome
- Terminology of alternative medicine
- Texas Health and Science University
- The College of Medicine
- The Critical Eye
- The DO
- The Fasting Cure
- The Sunflower Jam
- Therapeutic nihilism
- ThetaHealing
- Thomas Allinson
- Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Tinnitus retraining therapy
- Tommie Bass
- Toso
- Townsend Letter
- Trace Amounts
- Traditional Chinese medicine
- Traditional medicine
- Trager approach
- Trauma-sensitive yoga
- Trick or Treatment?
- Triphala
- Turmeric juice
- Ubhejane
- Uguisu no fun
- Uirō (Japanese medicine)
- Ulomoides dermestoides
- United States v. Warshak
- Universal Medicine
- Urinary bladder (Chinese medicine)
- Urine therapy
- Urophagia
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Vaginal steaming
- Vega machine
- Velada (Mazatec ritual)
- Vernon Coleman
- Vertebral artery test
- Vertebral subluxation
- Veterinary acupuncture
- Veterinary chiropractic
- Violet ray
- Viparita Karani
- Vision therapy
- Vladimir Zelenko
- Walter John Kilner
- Water ionizer
- Wearable generator
- Weleda
- Wellmania
- Wellness (alternative medicine)
- Wiley protocol
- William Bates (physician)
- Wilson's temperature syndrome
- Wind turbine syndrome
- Wobenzym
- World Medicine Institute
- Yaoxing lun
- Yoga as therapy
- Young blood transfusion
- Yuanqi
- Zero balancing
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