Complementary and alternative medicine/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Healing Arts [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Health Sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pseudoscience [r]: Any theory, or system of theories, that is deceptively claimed to be scientific. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Acupressure [r]: Alternative medicine system similar to acupuncture but with the application of pressure rather than the insertion of needles. ^[e]
• Acupuncture [r]: A form of alternative medicine that involves inserting and manipulating needles into 'acupuncture points' on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being. ^[e]
• Aromatherapy [r]: A form of complementary and alternative medicine whose adherents claim it to be a gentle but effective method of healing and enhancing the mind, body, and spirit through the use of natural oils from aromatic plants, trees and grasses. ^[e]
• Ayurvedic medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bach flower therapy [r]: A form of complementary medicine that uses remedies based on extracts from flowers, to improve what it terms vibrations, a class of biofields in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine taxonomy ^[e]
• Biofeedback [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Breatharianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chelation therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cupping [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ch'i [r]: In traditional Chinese culture, a dynamic and transformative principle that operates inside all living beings as well as in the universe at large ^[e]
• Chiropractic [r]: A complementary, alternative health-care profession that aims to heal using manual therapies on the spine and extremities. ^[e]
• Ear candling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Homeopathy [r]: System of alternative medicine involving administration of highly diluted substances with the intention to stimulate the body's natural healing processes, not considered proven by mainstream science. ^[e]
• Iridology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kinesiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Magnetic therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Meditation [r]: A variety of techniques that help isolate one's thinking from external stimuli, to induce a state of rest, or a state in which spiritual issues may be contemplated ^[e]
• Moxabustion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naturopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Osteopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Psychoanalysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Qi [r]: In traditional Chinese culture, a dynamic and transformative principle that operates inside all living beings as well as in the universe at large ^[e]
• Qigong [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rebirthing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reiki [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reflexology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shamanic healing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Therapeutic touch [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Traditional Chinese medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Urine therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Hospice and palliative care medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pain medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Physical and rehabilitation medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [r]: Add brief definition or description