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

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L Law of Contraries The allopathic principle of counteracting an ailment, for example, fighting a fever by administering an anti ...

readjustment of the therapy schedule. No deleteri- ous effects on the eyes have been reported. Some do not find relief, and in t ...

lymphasizing The process of removing waste materials from the extracellular space by increasing the flow of lymphatic fluid in t ...

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M macrobiotics A whole-food, nondairy, vegetar- ian diet geared to restoring and maintaining health by considering the energetic ...

The most important underlying principle of macrobiotic shiatsu is that everyone has the power to heal him- or herself. Additiona ...

inate free radicals; and slow down electrical brain activity. Whereas negative fields have a tranquiliz- ing effect, positive ma ...

marma puncture In Ayurvedic medicine, the insertion of a needle into the body’s marma, or energy points, at the junction of two ...

on the floor, standing, or sitting in a chair, consists of being verbally guided through a sequence of movements designed to rel ...

head. Twelve main bilateral meridians correspond to the 12 major organs—liver, spleen, heart, stomach, kidneys, lungs, etc. Six ...

Based on a new way of looking at energy pat- terns. While other approaches often focus on removing energy blockages, the Metamo ...

E-mail: [email protected]; World Wide Web: http://cardiorepair.uni-marburg.de/ismnt.html. Objectives of ISMNT include ...

The MORA Concept, by Franz Morell, M.D., pub- lished Karl F. Haug (Heidelberg, Germany, 1990). See also ACUPUNTURE; HOMEOPATHY. ...

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N nasya In Ayurvedic medicine, the therapeutic inhaling of oils. National Center for Complementary and Alterna- tive Medicine (N ...

NCCAM fact sheet “What Is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?” How can I get reliable information about a CAM therapy? It i ...

dangerous to the health of Americans. Further- more, if in the labeling or marketing of a dietary supplement a claim is made tha ...

tific evidence is about any treatment’s safety and whether it works. If you decide to use a CAM treatment that would be given b ...

NCCAM is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative medical practices in the context of rigorous science, training CAM ...