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

http://www.hakomiinstitute.com, offers information, refer- rals, and training. hatha yoga See YOGA. Hay, Louise American metaphy ...

is a major component of traditional Chinese (and other Asian) medicine and Ayurveda, traditional Hindu and Indian medicine. See ...

appropriate to the ailment, and they advocate the patient’s participation in his or her own healing. Most types of alternative a ...

Described universally as a humane, low-cost, nontoxic, noninvasive system of medicine that especially offers benefits to individ ...

Institute (NCI) joined forces to hinder Hoxsey’s method, and the Dallas clinic, which at the time had 12,000 patients, shut down ...

diminish or expel excessive humors such as phlegm and bile. Water is also a significant compo- nent in the traditional Chinese a ...

vous excitability, varicose veins of the legs, toning, and stimulating cardiac and respiratory activity. Do not use if there is ...

appropriate part of the body. The moist linen cloth is in turn wrapped with a dry cotton or linen cloth. The patient is then usu ...

method,” the patient dips a hand or other body part eight to 12 times into the paraffin. The hand is then covered with a plastic ...

tional status has a significant effect on one’s physi- cal status, a concept dating back to ancient Greece, India, and Persia. F ...

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I Imaginal Therapy See ISLAMIC SUFI HEALING PRACTICES. infusion A liquid injected into a vein, or a sub- stance steeped in hot o ...

homeopathic physician Ignatz von Peczeley, which was based on the concept that examining the iris, or the colored part of the ey ...

Beings of Healing, through our link with Pir-o-Mur- shid Inayat Khan, founder of this order. Members work with healing practices ...

they could have a deleterious effect on immune system functioning. Issels wished to motivate can- cer patients to participate fu ...

J James, William The American philosopher and psychologist (1842–1910), who led the movement called pragmatism or the pragmatic ...

that juices of all kinds are beneficial to health and complement treatment of ailments ranging from anxiety to varicose veins. J ...

K kahuna A Hawaiian witch doctor. The term was coined in 1886; its basic philosophy involves “the three selves”—high, or superco ...

to a muscle or organ, a nutritional excess or defi- ciency, a problem with the cranial-sacral-temporo- mandibular joint (TMJ) me ...

books, including On Death and Dying (New York: Macmillan, 1969), Questions and Answers on Death and Dying (New York: Macmillan, ...