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

addition to the qigongpractitioners, the Mt. Sinai team was composed of David J. Muehsam, M. S. Markov, Patricia A. Muehsam, and ...

R radical healing An integrated approach to healing and healing traditions set forth by Rudolph M. Bal- lentine, M.D., author of ...

The American chiropractor Dr. Ruth Drown took up Abrams’s work after his death, but she was prosecuted for fraud and medical qua ...

cause of problems elsewhere in the body. For example, the reflexology foot chart shows that the toes correspond to the head and ...

positive effects. There are various schools of Reiki, including White Light Reiki, and each practitioner may develop his or her ...

use of a broad-spectrum antibiotic when a specific pathogen may not be identified. A homeopathic combination remedy may be consi ...

ical, emotional, and spiritual whole. In addition, the method integrates the idea that stored emotions and memories may cause im ...

S saints, healing powers attributed to See CASEY, THE REVEREND SOLANUS. salve In folk and other herbal remedies, a mix- ture of ...

and The Stress of Life (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976). Some have referred to him as “the Einstein of medicine.” A physician and e ...

own feelings and how his practice of holism evolved. The article reads as follows: In the early 1970s, Dr. Bernie S. Siegel foun ...

from people imprisoned who are happy people. I learn from them. Q:What about your detractors? Siegel:Most of that is their proje ...

Guy Berard also developed a sound therapy, the Berard Method, using music to improve impaired hearing. The German physicist Ingo ...

and the Placebo Effect,” Stephen Barrett, M.D., retired psychiatrist and head of the consumer orga- nization called “Quackwatch, ...

Stressors—causes of stress—include fear, anxiety, crisis, joy, injury, disease, gravity, and mechanical force. Some stress is co ...

stricted consciousness. Then you are free. The shaman used the sweat lodge to move beyond the limited consciousness of the ego t ...

T t’ai ch’i (t’ai ch’i chuan) A combination of med- itation and martial art, which originated in ancient China. The discipline i ...

therapeutic baths See HYDROTHERAPY. Therapeutic Touch (TT) Based on ancient healing practices involving the body’s electromagnet ...

and the herbal practices of several Native American tribes. The Eclectics, who established many schools in major American cities ...

Transcendental Meditation gives a unique quality of rest to mind and body. It allows stress and tired- ness to be released in a ...

closely comparable with regard to age, gender, occu- pation, and health benefits. Over the five-year period the Transcendental M ...