national center for complementary and alternative medicine five-year strategic plan 2001–2005

A systematic review of 144 studies found that Transcendental Meditation was more effective in reducing anxiety than other techni ...

U urine therapy In Ayurvedic medicine, the practice of drinking, injecting, or externally applying one’s own urine as a treatmen ...

sample and creates rainbow-like colors; an oil drop that separates into “pearls” in the surface of the sample may indicate a kap ...

V vaginal pack, herbal A pad or tampon with aci- dophilus powder, yogurt, or cottage cheese that may be applied to or inserted i ...

Vitamin C prevents scurvy and is considered a nat- ural antibiotic and possibly an antiviral nutrient. Vit- amin D is important ...

W Weil, Andrew American medical researcher and physician. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Weil teaches at the University o ...

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X xenobiotics Biologically active foreign sub- stances, such as environmental toxins that enter the body and impair normal funct ...

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Y yin-yang The Chinese symbol, also called the t’ai ch’i symbol, for universal opposite forces, or mutu- ally interdependent pol ...

yoga A system of physical postures, stretching, meditation, and regulated ways of breathing according to the Hindu philosophy th ...

Gorakhnath The first treatise on Hatha Yoga was written by Gorakhnath, who lived sometime between A.D. 900 and 1225. Although th ...

Narendra. He became a disciple of Sri Rama- krishna Paramhansa, who renamed him Swami Vivekananda. He went on to become one of I ...

the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, a center for alternative treatment, in Chennai, India. While teaching, he wrote his first boo ...

only on a physical level, but on a spiritual level. He became a monk and founded the Divine Life Soci- ety. His teachings can be ...

therapy (IYT) was founded in 1993 by Joseph Le Page in San Francisco, California. Le Page designed a teacher-training program sp ...

religions can realize their greatest potential. Kundalini combines asanas, pranayama, and other techniques to strengthen and foc ...

her students “impose the pose upon their body rather than unfolding it from within,” and therefore adapted classical asanas to h ...

Hoffman, a native New Jersey yogi for 27 years, the practice focuses on relaxation, breath, self-observation, and individual awa ...

Z zanfu zhi qi The energy, or qi, of the body’s organs, according to traditional Chinese medicine. zang fu The term for the inte ...