Absolute Beginner's Guide to Alternative Medicine
Table 9.4 An Aromatherapeutic Toolkit Oil Use Basil Decrease sinus congestion; soothe GI tract, aid digestion; decrease headache ...
Lemon balm Calming, sedative, decrease anxiety, decrease depression; antiseptic, antiviral, antifungal, eliminate cold sores Lem ...
126 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TOALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SOOTHING POTIONS ROSEWATER Instead of using soap, try splashing your face w ...
CHAPTER 9 AROMATHERAPY 127 The Absolute Minimum ■ Aromatherapy uses essential oils from all sorts of plants to trigger specific ...
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Manual Healing Practices PARTIV Chiropractic Practice................ 131 Massage....................... 141 Pressure-Point Ther ...
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In This Chapter ■The principles and history of chiropractic ■The educational requirements for chiro- practic practice ■The detai ...
What Is Chiropractic? Manipulation, as a healing technique, was practiced long before chiropractic. Chinese artifacts, as early ...
Chiropractors function almost entirely in free-standing private practice. Some con- tinue their education with postdoctoral trai ...
■ Structure and function exist in intimate relation with one another. ■ Structural distortions can cause functional abnormalitie ...
Traditionally, chiropractic viewed illness and disease as caused by misalignment of the spinal vertebrae, referred to as vertebr ...
The chiropractic physician consistently assesses a number of back pain risk factors that are critical to diagnosis. Individual f ...
The Chiropractic Cure Three primary clinical goals guide chiropractic intervention: ■ The first goal is to reduce or eliminate p ...
not cause pain, though people may feel a little discomfort the next day due to rebal- ancing of the contracted muscles. This sen ...
CHAPTER 10 CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE 139 The Absolute Minimum ■ Chiropractic practitioners address their patients’ health concerns b ...
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In This Chapter ■The history and physiological benefits of massage ■A survey of types of massage ■Massage techniques you can try ...
What Is Massage? The idea that touch can heal is an old one. Cave paintings in the Pyrenees show that 15,000 years ago people tr ...
members of congress and Presidents Harrison and Grant. At first, physicians per- formed massage, but they eventually delegated t ...
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