Definition: Famous People in Alternative Medicine
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Revision, Oct 2004) Famous
people in alternative medicine provides
a master list of the articles included in this alternative medicine (CAM)
series of articles.
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- Edward Bach - founder of
flower essence therapy and the Bach flower
remedies.
- William Horatio
Bates - founder of the Bates method alternative
approach to eyesight improvement.
- Wooster Beech
- founded Eclectic Medicine.
- Dan Bensky -
American TCM and Craniosacral practitioner and
author of a popular English language version of
the Chinese herbal materia medica.
- Paul Bragg -
known for the Bragg Health Crusades, the Bragg
Healthy Lifestyle, deep breathing, water fasts,
organic foods, drinking water, juicing, exercise
and listening to one's body.
- Emanuel Bronner - aka
"Dr. Bronner," master soap-maker known
for eccentric messages on labels for natural
soaps and other health products.
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- Carlos Castaneda -
author and philosopher. One of his ideas is that
dreaming can be cultivated as a way to refine
one's awareness to a point where extraordinary
feats of perception can be achieved.
- Charaka - is one of the
founders of Ayurveda.
- Cheng Man-ch'ing -
traditional Chinese physician and the first
well-known teacher to offer his own version of T'ai Chi Ch'uan in
the West.
- Mantak Chia - claimed
healer and author of books on Taoism, Taoist sexuality and Tai Chi Chuan
- Hulda
Regehr Clark - wrote a series of books
including The Cure for all Diseases,
advocating extreme dietary practices and
"zapping" of parasites.
- Benjamin Colby
- wrote the book, A Guide to Health, which
delineated the basic practices and philosophy of
Thomsonian Medicine.
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- Eugene V. Debs,
Socialist leader and U.S. Presidential candidate,
died as a result of "nature cure"
treatments at Lindlahr Sanitarium outside Chicago, Illinois.
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- Mary Baker Eddy -
founder of Christian Science
and its readvocacy of Christian healing, thereby
also reawakening 20th-century interest in the
subject in more mainstream denominations as well
as in certain more unrestrictive New Age offshoots.
- George L.
Engel - proposed the biopsychosocial model of
health, illness and healing in 1977.
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- Theodor Hahn
- a lay practitioner who advocated using the
water cure along with a vegetarian diet.
- Samuel Hahnemann -
founded homeopathic medicine.
- Michael Harner -
synthesized shamanic beliefs and practices from
all over the world into a system now known as neoshamanism.
- Joseph Heller - Student
of Ida Rolf, first president of the Rolf
Institute and founder of Hellerwork Structural
Integration. (This JH is not, nor is he related
to, the author to which his name here is
erroneously linked.)
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- Jack LaLanne - For over
30 years, Jack promoted exercise on television.
He is also famous for a series of well-publicized
feats of strength that always took place on his
birthday.
- Benedict Lust
- purchased the rights to the term
"naturopathy" from John Scheel.
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- Theron
Randolph - father of modern allergy medicine,
founder of environmental medicine
- Doris Rapp -
protege of Randolph, pediatric environmental
medicine practitioner and author of books on
pediatric allergies.
- Wilhelm Reich - founder
of Orgonomy.
- Royal Rife -
Invented an optical microscope with 31,000 times
magnification in 1933. Worked with pleomorphic
microbes in various media. Invented a plasma ray
device that could be used to devitalize microbes
called the Beam Ray. Used the Beam Ray in a USC
clinic at La Jolla CA in 1934 to cure 16 cancer
patients.
- Arnold Rikli
- a lay practitioner who added the use of air and
sunlight to the water cure. He is known for
having said: "Water is good; air is better,
but light is best of all."
- Ida Rolf -
founder of Rolfing.
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- John Upledger
- principal proponent of craniosacral therapy.
- Mikao Usui - rediscovered Reiki during the latter half of
the 19th century in Japan.
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