Alternative Medicine Articles
Color Therapy
Both Egyptians and Greeks built temples of healing and specific colors. Color therapy is a big part of Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic practices, and much research has been done in the area of light and color therapy as an addition to traditional therapies and treatments.
In America, Dr. Harry Spitler found that he could significantly increase a patient's reaction to therapy and treatment by changing the amount and color of light entering the eyeball, producing physiologic ...
About Craniosacral Therapy Or CST
Based in osteopathy, CST was originally developed by physician John E. Upledger at Michigan State University after an eight year study as a professor of biomechanics. Dr. William Sutherland had pioneered the idea through his work in cranial osteopathy. Dr. Upledger was assisting with a neck surgery when he noticed rhythmic movement of a system later to become known as the craiosacral system. CST evaluates and helps the functioning of the craniosacral system-the membranes and fluid-that surround ...
Alternative Medicine And Its Risks
There has been a surge in recent years of people looking to alternative medicine for treatment of illness. It is a practice that generates a great deal of controversy both inside and outside of the traditional world of medicine, and an issue that some experts say does not receive enough attention.
What Is Alternative Medicine?
The most commonly accepted definition of alternative medicine is a treatment or substance that is untested or unproven using accepted ...
Alternative Medicine And Todays Society
Do you know what alternative medicine is? If you think that you do not, you are wrong. Alternative medicine has become something of a niche in today's world. The healing treatments that used to be thought of as ineffective to certain people of the world, are now being used more and more frequently. Many well known types of alternative medicine include:
Alternative Medicine Practitioners
Healing through alternative medicine is a broad subject, traditionally referred to as practices and applications not usually taught by conventional or western medical schools as treatment for illnesses. Alternative medicine is typically not covered by health insurance, although acupuncture, massage, and chiropractic have recently gotten the go ahead.
For those of you interested in becoming alternative medicine providers, the practice is divided into seven major categorie ...
Alternative Medicines And Treatments For Cancer
If you have cancer or know someone who does, then you know that sometimes the treatment can be as disheartening as the disease. The effects of chemotherapy can reduce cancerous cells, but the side effects are nausea, loss of appetite, and hair loss, just to name a few.
It's no wonder that cancer victims look for alternative forms of treatment, and alternative medicine has come up with some options that are meant to be complimentary to the more "modern" forms of ...
Alternative Treatments For Men
There are many alternative methods of treatment in the world today, and many are directed towards men directly. For men, you want to ensure that you are using the best alternative method for you. There are three great alternative methods that work well for men and only men. Alternative treatments are made for men and women, but in some cases only certain methods of the same treatments work effectively for men.
Herbs For Men
Herbs can be used for men for several different pur ...
Ayurvedic Medicine
The legend of the beginning of ayurvedic medicine is that the one creator, Brahma, taught the theories and practices to one of the animal lords, who taught it to the Asvins-the divine twins. They taught this to the chief of the shining ones, called Indra. These were the deities of ancient verdict times.
As mankind fell victim and suffered from ailments and disease the wise men went to Indra and were taught the ancient remedies and healing cures. This is the knowledge ...
Bee Therapy For Natural Treatments
Bee Therapy is the treatment of ailments with the use of products made from the common honeybee's venom and honey. These medicines include bee pollen, raw honey, propolis and royal jelly. Although scientific studies have not proved the theories that apitherapy works, products like royal jelly have become an increasingly popular item sold on convenience store counters as an energy serum and made into beauty products.
Hippocrates used the venom from bees to treat joint ailme ...
Biofeedback Therapy
Biofeedback is a fancy machine used basically the same way a thermometer or scale is used. When we are sick, we use a thermometer to determine if we have a fever. Depending on how high the fever is, we decide how we want to handle it. (Take over the counter fever reducers or get to the emergency room.) A thermometer is telling us the bio-feedback- the information from our bodies- we need to make the decision. It's the same principle with large and more complicated biofeedback machines.
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Chiropractics As Alternative Medicine
With so many different alternative methods of treatment in the world today, you may not know that one of these treatments includes chiropractics. This is a form of treatment that has been in our society for years and not even acknowledged anymore as an alternative method of treatment. There are many theories that coincide with chiropractics. The main theory being that the vertebrae is not properly aligned. This is what contributes to a lot of diseases, illnesses and pains. The method of chiropra ...
Choosing An Alternative Medicine Practitioner
Choosing The Perfect Practitioner
When you set out to find a great practitioner, there are many barriers that you will find. You will instantly see how hard it becomes to find a good practitioner who suits all your needs and who you feel comfortable with. You may also run into many practitioners who may fool you with the qualifications that they actually have. The last thing you want to do is find yourself in the hands of a fraud. Below are some great tips and steps that y ...
Using Alternative Treatments To Treat Children
There are many diseases and illnesses that children have which are difficult to treat. They are difficult to treat because it may be harder to administer the conventional treatments to a child or they may refuse to take their medication. This is where alternative medications and treatments come into place. Children easily accept these alternative treatments because they do not associate these treatments with medicine. These treatments are something new and exciting in their eyes.
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Comparing Conventional Treatments To Alternative Treatments
There are not as many differences between these two types of treatments as you may think. There are however, quite a few large differences that may change your mind regarding whichever form of treatment you normally use.
Conventional methods of treatments are treatments that everyone has used at one point in their life. These conventional methods include treatments such as, prescription medication, scientific methods, x-rays and the list goes on. Everyone is familiar with these types ...
Hatha Yoga
Yoga is one of the most popular types of alternative medical treatments and is growing rapidly every year. Yoga is more commonly known as a mere physical therapy treatment. Hath a yoga is only one of the many types of yoga that exists in the world today. Yoga was originally meant to be a spiritual treatment of the mind and the soul. It has, in today’s world, become more of a physical treatment than anything else. Hatha yoga is the type of yoga that prepares your body for its spiritual journey. T ...
Healing Crystals
A crystal is made up of minerals which become crystalline through atoms and ions arraigned in geometrically precise patterns. The most common crystal is the quartz, or clear, pointed crystal which became popular in the mid-late eighties, when crystal and metaphysics shops sprang up all over the U.S.
Crystals were popular long before the U.S. tried to commercialize the heck out of them, though.
Archeologists discovered crystals in graves during excavations in Europe ...
Herbal Remedies
There are as many different kinds of herbal remedies as there are regions, reason being is simple. Nature provided different herbs for use in healing for every region, so a curry based remedy in India will work just as well as say, a chamomile based remedy in England.
Herbal remedies are often used in conjunction with acupuncture to relieve a wide variety of ailments, and there are thousands of tea variations for ailments as well, but for this article we're going to stick ...
Herbal Teas and Tinctures
Herbal teas have been used through out the centuries for relieving pain and soothing away stress. They are also used for entertainment and social functions as well, but we are going to focus on the use of herbal teas for the relief of various ailments.
Please do not attempt to grow your own herbs for remedy teas unless you have taken a class to learn how to do so. Some herbs are poisonous until cooked, some are poisonous after being cooked, and most just won't be strong enough to make an ...
Homeopathy
Homeopathy may be a new term for you, if so, please continue reading through this definition of homeopathy. This is an organic system of medicine that is based on three great principles.
• Like Cures Like
• Minimal Dose
• One Time Remedy
Homeopathy bases its system on these three principles and uses them to help guide the type of medicine and cur ...
Hot Yoga
Yoga is a common phrase around many households, but very few people are completely knowledgeable in the field of yoga. Yoga has many different types and practices, one being “Hot Yoga”. This is the nickname for Birkram yoga. This type of yoga was named after its creator, Bikram Choudury. The reason it is called hot yoga is because this form of yoga is practiced in hot rooms. These rooms are normally at an average temperature of 115 degrees Fahrenheit. This type of yoga focuses on balancing and s ...
Kinesiology
Stressed muscles cause a lot of pain, and taking pain medications either leave us sleepy or don't work for any length of time. The bottom line is that pain killers only mask the symptomatic pain; they do not relieve the injuries that cause the pain in the first place.
Kinesiology practitioners use techniques in which they test the muscles in order to determine the imbalances in the body. They then used a number of various techniques to restore balance. Kinesiology not only works on the ...
Tips For A Better Life
What are you passionate about? What brings your mind, body, and soul together? Whether it's a daily meditation or prayer, a rigid diet system, or just a good book, the outcome of being able to combined these three aspects of yourself can bring about the balance that most people wish they had in their lives.
Although we talk a lot about balance, most people leave out the concept of the soul, mostly because it's not very well understood by Westerns. I submit that what moves ...
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine is gaining popularity in the U.S., as more and more people are learning the benefits of acupuncture, acupressure, deep massage, Qigong, and the herbal medicines. Westerners are the new kids on the block when it comes to receiving these treatments, as over a quarter of the population of the world practices TCM, also known as Oriental medicine.
The National Institute of Health and the World Health Organization believe TCM to be a viable alternative to Western medicine ...
Typical Alternative Treatment Sessions
Going to the doctor's office is not something anyone enjoys. You have the hours of waiting in the waiting room before you get to see the doctor and then you have the additional wait in their office, still waiting to be treated. This visit can be a long, tense and frustrating event for most people. Alternative practitioners believe that it is this stress and frustration that not only adds to the pain but may in fact have a part in creating it.
When you take that first step to make an a ...
Using Acupuncture To Heal
Acupuncture is the art of inserting very thin needles just under the skin to stimulate specific points on the body in order to bring about relief of pain and wellness to the body. This is accomplished by restoring the balance of qi to the body.
Qi is the life force which is found in every thing, both human and non human, from breath to the blood that flows through us, and the movement of qi throughout the body is a sensation brought about by acupuncture that you will ...
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