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Dictionary of Alternative Medicine - E
Dictionary of Alternative Medicine - F
Dictionary of Alternative Medicine - G
- Sylvester Graham - was known for his graham
crackers and founded Grahamism.
- Golden Age of Quackery -- Eighteenth-century
England is remembered as the Golden Age of Quackery, since Queen
Anne patronized and gave credibility to myriad of swindlers and frauds.
- George Goodheart founded applied
kinesiology in 1964.
- Grahamism recommended hard mattresses, open bedroom
windows, chastity, cold showers, loose clothing, drinking pure water and vigorous exercise.
- A green prescription is a card given by a
doctor or nurse to a patient, with exercise and lifestyle goals written on it.
- Group modalities are forms of CAM
that an individual must seek out and perform with a group of like minded people.
- Gua Sha
Dictionary of Alternative Medicine - H
- Theodor Hahn was a lay
practitioner who advocated using the water-cure along
with a vegetarian diet.
- Samuel Hahnemann founded homeopathic
medicine.
- Hair analysis
- Hatha yoga
- HDL (High density lipoprotein)
- Healer - A healer is a practitioner of alternative health
practices who works with, rather than against, the natural self-healing properties of the body. Healers are said
to heal because all healing comes from within the body rather from external treatments.
- Healing
- Healing touch is an energy therapeutic approach to healing that uses touch to influence the human aura to affect healing.
- "Healing with Animals" is a documentary
about healing relationships between animals and people.
- Health
- Health condition
- Health psychology
- Joseph Heller - Student of Ida Rolf, first president
of the Rolf Institute and founder of Hellerwork
Structural Integration.
- Michael Harner synthesized shamanic
beliefs and practices from all over the world into a system now known as neoshamanism.
- Herbal medicine
- Herbalism is the practice of making or prescribing
herbal remedies for medical conditions.
- Herbal crystallization analysis - A diagnostic method developed by George Benner which was based upon a method of botanical identification developed by Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s.
- Herbal therapy
- Herbology is the traditional
Chinese medical practice of combining plants, minerals, and parts of animals for medical treatment.
- Heroic medicine is any medicine or method of
treatment that is aggressive or daring in a dangerously ill patient.
- List of herbs and spices
- High density lipoprotein (HDL)
- High blood cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Holism
- Holistic health
- Holistic medicine
- Homeopathy is an alternative medical practice founded
on resemblances. "In homeopathic medicine, there is a belief that 'like
cures like,' meaning that small, highly diluted quantities of medicinal substances are given to cure symptoms,
when the same substances given at higher or more concentrated doses would actually cause those symptoms."
[NCCAM]. "For example, someone suffering from insomnia
may be given a homeopathic dose of coffee. Administered in diluted form, homeopathic
remedies are derived from many natural sources, including plants, metals, and minerals. Numbering in the thousands,
these remedies have been used to treat a wide variety of ailments including seasonal allergies,
asthma, influenza,
headaches, and indigestion."
(See CDC Advance Data Report below.)
- Human aura - The usually invisible emanation, effluvium, or colored outline of the
life forces that allegedly permeates a human being.
- Hygiene
- Hydropathy is both the external and internal use
of water in the medical treatment of disease.
- Hydrotherapy is just the external use of water
in the medical treatment of disease.
- Hypnotherapy is the treatment of a symptom, disease,
or addiction by means of hypnotism. Hypnosis
is "an altered state of consciousness, it is characterized by increased responsiveness to suggestion. The
hypnotic state is attained by first relaxing the
body then shifting the client's attention toward a narrow range of objects or ideas as suggested by the hypnotist
or hypnotheraptist. The procedure is used to access various levels of the mind to effect positive changes in a
person's behavior and to treat numerous health conditions.
For example, hypnosis has been used to lose weight, improve sleep, and reduce
pain and stress." (See CDC Advance Data Report below.)
- Hypnosis
- Hypnotherapy
Dictionary of Alternative Medicine - I
- Illnesses and health conditions commonly targeted
by alternative treatments
- Inflammation
- Eunice Ingham developed and refined zone
therapy into what is now known as reflexology.
- Insomnia
- Integrative
medicine, as defined by NCCAM,
combines conventional medical treatments and CAM
alternative treatments for which there is some high-quality scientific evidence of their safety and effectiveness.
"Integrative medicine is the term being used for a new movement that is being driven by the desires of
consumers but that is now getting the attention of many academic health centers. Importantly, integrative medicine
is not synonymous with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It has a far larger meaning and mission in
that it calls for restoration of the focus of medicine on health and healing and emphasizes the centrality of the
patient-physician relationship. In addition to providing the best conventional care, integrative medicine focuses
on preventive maintenance of health by paying attention to all relative components of lifestyle, including diet,
exercise, stress management, and emotional well-being. It insists on patients being active participants in their
health care as well as on physicians viewing patients as whole persons�minds, community members, and spiritual
beings, as well as physical bodies. Finally, it asks physicians to serve as guides, role models, and mentors, as
well as dispensers of therapeutic aids." (Snyderman, Weil 2002)
- Interventions are any attempt to modify a medical
or health condition.
- Iridology
- Isopathy
References
- Barnes P, Powell-Griner E, McFann K, Nahin R. CDC Advance Data Report #343. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Use Among Adults: United States, 2002. May 27, 2004.
- Snyderman R, Weil AT. Integrative medicine: bringing medicine back to its roots. Arch Intern Med. 2002;162:395�397.
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