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Parent topics
- Healing Arts [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Health Sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
- pseudoscience [r]: Any theory that supporters claim to be scientific but which the scientific community deems fallacious [e]
Subtopics
- acupressure [r]: Add brief definition or description
- acupuncture [r]: A form of alternative medicine that involves inserting and manipulating needles into 'acupuncture points' on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being. [e]
- aromatherapy [r]: A form of complementary and alternative medicine whose adherents claim it to be a gentle but effective method of healing and enhancing the mind, body, and spirit through the use of natural oils from aromatic plants, trees and grasses. [e]
- Ayurvedic medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bach flower therapy [r]: A form of complementary medicine that uses remedies based on extracts from flowers, to improve what it terms vibrations, a class of biofields in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine taxonomy [e]
- Biofeedback [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Breatharianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- chelation therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- cupping [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ch'i [r]: Add brief definition or description
- chiropractic [r]: A complementary, alternative health-care profession that aims to heal using manual therapies on the spine and extremities. [e]
- ear candling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eye Motion Desensitization Reprocessing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- homeopathy [r]: System of medicine or alternative medicine that asserts that substances known to cause specific syndromes of symptoms can also, in very low and specially prepared doses, help to cure people who are ill with a similar syndrome of symptoms. [e]
- iridology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- kinesiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- magnetic therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- meditation [r]: A variety of techniques that help isolate one's thinking from external stimuli, to induce a state of rest, or a state in which spiritual issues may be contemplated [e]
- moxabustion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Natural Stress Relief Medittion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- naturopathy [r]: A healing art that does not use drugs, surgery, or other interventional technique, but concentrates on the physical environment, diet, massage, and other means considered part of nature [e]
- osteopathy [r]: Non-allopathic system of medicine in which emphasis is given on the musculoskeletal system, and the body's ability to heal itself under the right conditions. [e]
- phytotherapy [r]: The therapeutic use of plants or plant extracts to prevent or treat disease; it is most commonly a form of complementary and alternative medicine, following long culturally-specific traditions such as herbalism. Chemically extracted and concentration-controlled plant-derived substances are used in conventional medicine, but are usually not considered phytotherapy. [e]
- psychoanalysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- qi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- qigong [r]: The art of realizing, cultivating, circulating, balancing and enhancing one's internal energy and life force according to traditional Chinese medical theories. [e]
- rebirthing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reiki [r]: Add brief definition or description
- reflexology [r]: The systematic, manual stimulation of the reflex maps located on the feet, hands and outer ears that resembles a shape of the human body (Reflexological Society of America) [e]
- Shamanic healing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- therapeutic touch [r]: A form of energy healing, performed by a therapist positioning hands over the patient's body, and sensing and adjusting energy fields [e]
- traditional Chinese medicine [r]: A system of traditional medicine which is based on the beliefs and practices of the Chinese culture. (Anonymous, (2009) Traditional Chinese Medicine (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.) [e]
- Transcendental Meditation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- urine therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Hospice and palliative care medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine [e]
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [r]: Within the U.S. government's National Institutes of Health, the organization concerned with funding and performing research in complementary and alternative medicine, and disseminating its findings [e]
- Pain medicine [r]: An interdisciplinary physician subspecialization, within the broad scope of pain management, which often involves team approaches with various physician and nonphysician specialties [e]
- Physical and rehabilitation medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- relaxation (physiology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
