Absolute Beginner's Guide to Alternative Medicine

364 TEA TREE OIL

tea tree oil

aromatherapy, 125

herbal medicine, 92

teacher plants (shamanism),

265

temperment (AAT), 304

TENS (transcultaneous electri-

cal nerve stimulation), 288

tension, alternative thera-

pies, 330, 341

Thai massage, 149, 329

Therapeutic Touch (TT). See

TT (Therapeutic Touch)

therapists, guidelines in

selecting, 5

Thie, John, 178

third eye chakras, characteris-

tics of, 25

“three vital treasures”, 40

throat chakras, characteristics

of, 25

Tibetan meditation, 207

tinctures, 90, 107

tinnitis, alternative therapies,

342

tired feet, alternative thera-

pies, 329

tongue diagnoses

Ayurveda, 57

TCM (Traditional Chinese

Medicine), 42

touch

HT (Healing Touch), 168-171,

174-175

message therapy, 143-145

Reiki, 168, 171, 174-175

TT (Therapeutic Touch),

168-175

Trager Approach

certification, 253

development of, 252

“hook-up”, 253

instruction, 254

mentastics, 253

pain management, 337

Trager Institute, 253

Trager, Milton, 252

trance states

hypnotherapy, 217-221

Native American medicine,

74

Transcendental Meditation

(TM), 190, 206

transitional sleep (dream-

work), 229

“trapped” nightmares, 235

trigger points (message ther-

apy), 145, 148, 337

TT (Therapeutic Touch), 168,

171

anxiety, 319

arthritis, 320

broken bones, 323

centering, 172

circulation (poor), 325

depression, 327

development of, 168

diagnostic methods, 172-173

energy imbalance, 329

headaches (tension), 331

nausea, 336

pain management, 337

philosophy of, 170

sprains/strains, 340

tension, 342

training, 169

treatments, 173-175

Tulku, Tarthang, 234

turning over to a Higher

Power (religious healing

remedies), 275

U - V

unitary-transformative

research paradigms (con-

ventional medicine), 13

University of Utah Hospital,

309

upper world (shamanism),

264

urinary tract infection, alter-

native therapies, 342

urine diagnoses (Ayurveda),

57

Usui, Dr., 168

valerian, herbal medicine, 93

Vata doshas, 53, 56

balancing, 66

composite body types, 54-55

determining, 64, 66

imbalances, 57-63

vertebral subluxation (chiro-

practic therapies), 132-135

vetiver (aromatherapy), 125

vibration, Swedish massage,

148

Vibrational Medicine, 26, 167

viral infection, alternative

therapies, 333

vision quests, 76, 261

VMO (vomero nasal organs),

119

Volta, Alessandro, 284

voluntary nervous system

(biofeedback), 242

W

“walking in balance”

circadian rhythms, 18

musical rhythms, 18-19

Walking Mandala, 204

walking meditation, 207, 212

warming foods (TCM treat-

ments), 44

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