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Reiki
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Reiki is said by its practitioners to be a form of complementary or alternative medicine, developed (or rediscovered) during the latter half of the 19th century by Mikao Usui in Japan. It has gained widespread popularity outside Japan, particularly in Europe and North America. |
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Qigong
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Qigong is an increasingly popular aspect of Chinese medicine. Qigong is mostly taught for health maintenance purposes, but there are also some who teach it, especially in China, for therapeutic interventions. Various forms of traditional qigong are also widely taught in conjunction with Chinese martial arts. |
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Shiatsu
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Shiatsu is a massage technique originating in Japan. It is uncertain if Shiatsu is related to Chinese Zhi Ya massage. It follows similar principles to acupuncture, in which the thumbs, palms, fingers, and elbows, are used to apply pressure to certain points of the body. |
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Heroic Medicine
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Heroic medicine is a term for aggressive medical practices or methods of treatment which were later overcome by scientific advances. During the Age of Heroic Medicine (1780-1850), educated professional physicians aggressively practiced "heroic medicine," including blood-letting (venesection), intestinal purging (calomel [mercury chloride]), vomiting (tartar emetic), profuse sweating (diaphoretics) and blistering. |
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Bloodletting
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Bloodletting (or blood-letting, in modern medicine referred to as phlebotomy) was a popular medical practice from antiquity up to the late 19th century, involving the withdrawal of often considerable quantities of blood from a patient in the belief that this would cure or prevent illness and disease. The practice has been largely abandoned due to its proven ineffectiveness against all but a few conditions. |
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Herbology
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Herbology is the art of combining medicinal herbs. Herbology is traditionally one of the more important modalities utilized in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Each herbal medicine prescription is a cocktail of many herbs tailored to the individual patient. |
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Hypnotherapy
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Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnosis as a form of medical therapy, usually for relieving pain or conditions related to one's state of mind. Practitioners believe that when a client enters, or believes he has entered, a state of trance, the patient is more receptive to suggestion and other therapy. The most common use of hypnotherapy is to remedy maladies like obesity, smoking, pain, ego, anxiety, stress, amnesia, phobias, and performance but many others are also treated by hypnosis. |
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Hydrotherapy
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Hydrotherapy is probably the oldest form of medical treatment. It involves the use of water for soothing pains and treating diseases. Its use has been recorded as early as ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations. |
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Natural Hygiene
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Natural Hygiene is a branch of alternative medicine that claims to provide all the life requirements brought to bear upon the living organism in due proportion and according to [the] need of human beings for preservation and restoration of health. |
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Atkins Nutritional Approach
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The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is a fashionable but controversial high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. It was popularized by Dr. Robert Atkins (1930-2003) in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. It has been astonishingly popular in recent times because of his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, in which he revised some of his ideas but remained largely faithful to the original concepts. |
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