Topics: Health : Alternative
Alternative health deals with alternatives to conventional western scientific/medicine remedies. Topics found here may include complementary medicine, herbs, aromatherapy, oriental medicine, folk medicine and whole health remedies. The primary focus of this category is on information, although commercial sites and service providers are listed in some subcategories.
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Oriental medicine includes various Eastern indigenous traditions: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Polynesian, Vietnamese, Tibetan. Most have their bases in the philosophical foundation of the East: yin/yang theory.
Acupuncture,
Bodywork,
Education,
Opposing Views,
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Acutouch
Acutouch therapy makes use of magnetic principles as well as far-infrared rays and anions.
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Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique is a long-established method of helping people learn how to release harmful physical stress from their body - stress that can result in such symptoms as backache, stiff neck and shoulders and a variety of repetitive strain injuries.
Dance Awareness,
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Apitherapy
Apitherapy is the medicinal use of honeybee products.
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Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of pure essential oils through topical application or inhalation. Essential Oils are volatile aromatic substances.
Journals,
Opposing Views,
Organizations,
Practitioners,
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Ayurveda
Ayurveda is a holistic system of healing which evolved among the Brahmin sages of ancient India some 3000-5000 years ago.
Clinics,
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Biofeedback
Biofeedback is a form of alternative medicine that involves measuring a subject's quantifiable bodily functions such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweating, and muscle tension, conveying the information to the patient in real-time.
Clinics and Practitioners,
Education,
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Breathwork
Breathwork covers a range of therapeutic techniques designed to increase an individual's physical and mental well being.
Buteyko,
Holotropic Breathwork,
Rebirthing,
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By Region
This category contains links to Regions, Countries and Localities with alternative health and medicine sites.
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Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a method of treatment used by Chiropractors. Chiropractors specialise in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions which are due to mechanical dysfunction of the joints, particularly those of the spine.
Clinics,
Education,
Kinesiology,
Opposing Views,
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Coaching
Coaching is a place where practitioners and providers of education on such "life coaching" modalities like Mastery and the Forum can be listed.
Europe,
North America,
Oceania,
Professional Resources,
Spiritual Based,
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Color Therapies
Aura-Soma,
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Crystals
Organizations,
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Ear Candling
Ear candling or coning is described as a method of cleaning the ears and the mind, and alleviating a host of physical, emotional and spiritual ailments.
Opposing Views,
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Energy Healing
Energy healing incorporates many modalities, from traditional ethnic practices to modern techniques developed from bioenergetic research.
Esoteric,
Practitioners,
Pranic Healing,
Rife,
Sound,
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Fasting and Cleansing
Proponents of fasting and cleansing believe that by giving the body a "break" from the daily chores of digesting foodstuffs, you give the body an opportunity to spend its energy to repair, detoxify, or rejuvenate itself.
Clinics and Practices,
Enemas,
Opposing Views,
Retreats and Vacations,
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Folk Medicine
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines folk medicine as "traditional medicine as practiced nonprofessionally especially by people isolated from modern medical services and usually involving the use of plant-derived remedies on an empirical basis".As stated by David J.
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Herbs
Herbs and herbal treatments can be used to enhance health and to treat illness.
Chinese Herbal Medicine,
Constituents,
Materia Medica,
Opposing Views,
Practitioners,
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Holistic and Integrated Medicine
Holistic Medicine describes a mainly Western outlook at health care which includes the "whole" of the human/animal organism.
Alternative Cancer Treatment,
Education,
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Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a system for treating disease based on the administration of minute doses of a drug that in massive amounts produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself.
Education,
FAQs, Help, and Tutorials,
Opposing Views,
Organizations,
Practitioners and Clinics,
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Huna
Huna is an ancient system that comes from the Hawaiian and Polynesian people. "Huna" means "secret" - it comes from the word "Kahuna" which means "keeper of the secret." Huna is a way of life that includes elements of spiritual practice without religious dogma.
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Hypnotherapy
Medical Hypnotherapy can be used alone or in conjunction with other therapeutic modalities and traditional medicine.
Alchemical,
Associations,
Education,
Practitioners,
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Iridology
Iridology is the study of the eye's iris, in order to diagnose disease and to promote well-being.
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Magnetic Therapy
Information and education about magnets and their effects on health. Consider using magnets together with other medical and alternative approaches.
Publications,
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Massage Therapy and Bodywork
This category includes all forms of massage and hands-on bodywork techniques. These techniques may have a range of aims.
Aquatic Bodywork,
Associations,
Bowen Therapy,
Cranial-Sacral Therapy,
Education,
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Meditation
Meditation is an ancient practice common to almost all religions and recently found medically helpful in relieving stress and reducing stress-induced illnesses.
Heart-Based,
Individualized Instruction,
Mindfulness,
Moving or Dance,
Research,
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Naturopathy
To heal in harmony with the natural functions of the body — without harm — is the underlying principle of the naturopathic system of medicine.
Organizations,
Practitioners and Clinics,
Schools,
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Non-Toxic Living
Non-toxic living refers to people striving to have fewer toxins (poisons)in their personal and home environment.
Mercury and Amalgams,
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Opposing Views
Sites with information opposed to alternative medicine.
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Palmtherapy
Palmtherapy is a method for rapidly relieving emotional suffering and for accelerating human potential through the hand/brain/mind connection, reaching the brain through the (touch and nontouch) stimulation of various areas and lines on the palms of the hands which are related to brain/mind activity and the personality.
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Practitioners
Alternative health service providers.
Online,
Wellness Centers,
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Reflexology
This category includes all forms of Reflexology - foot, hand, and ear. Reflexologists work to bring the body into a balanced state by providing a relaxing form of pressure therapy on the feet, hands and/or ears.
Articles,
Associations,
Charts,
Practitioners,
Schools,
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Reiki
Reiki is a form of energy healing. Discovered by Mikao Usui in the early 20th Century, it was brought to the West by Hawayo Takata in 1936.
Chats and Forums,
Practitioners and Teachers,
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Resources
The Resources category is meant to provide in depth, comprehensive, and well documented educational and informational listings for the Health/Alternative categories.
Directories,
Education,
Magazines and E-zines,
News and Media,
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Tibetan Medicine
Tibetan medicine has been practiced for over 2500 years and is still practiced today. Called gSoba Rig-pa, the science of healing, it is largely based on herbs.
Practitioners,
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Trepanation
Trepanation (or trephination) is the making of a small hole in the skull of the adult by use of a surgical drill known as a trepan.
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Urine Therapy
Urine therapy refers to one of several uses of urine to prevent or cure sickness, to enhance beauty or to cleanse one's bowels.
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