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Parent topics
- Anthropology [r]: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Health Sciences [r]: The helping professions that use applied science to improve health and to treat disease. [e]
- Healing Arts [r]: The health sciences, forms of complementary and alternative medicine, and traditional practices aimed at curing disease, healing injury and promoting wellness. [e]
- Psychology [r]: The study of systemic properties of the brain and their relation to behaviour. [e]
- Traditional medicine [r]: Methods of healthcare, not formulated based on scientific models or necessarily having demonstrated efficacy in randomized controlled trials, which still have a long history of safety and presumed efficacy as used in specific cultures [e]
Subtopics
- Anthroposophy [r]: A holistic extension to conventional medicine, emphasizing the spiritual, and using art and movement, as well as herbal remedies, especially mistletoe [e]
- Art therapy [r]: The medical use of visual or tactile art, used in conjunction with psychotherapy to help express events that may be difficult to articulate, and with rehabilitative medicine to improve coordination and, when approriate, assist a client with artistic training to adapt techniques to physical limitations [e]
- Ayurveda [r]: A traditional Hindu system of medicine, part of complementary and alternative medicine, using mind-body interactions and herbs [e]
- Chiropractic [r]: A complementary, alternative health-care profession that aims to heal using manual therapies on the spine and extremities. [e]
- Cognitive behavioral therapy [r]: A psychotherapeutic technique based on assisting the patient to learn the interpretation of (cognitive structure of experiences that trigger behavior, and, if that behavior is maladaptive, to change the response to the experience [e]
- Counselling stress therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Crystal therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dance therapy [r]: The use of dance and other movement techniques to improve health, dealing with emotional or neurologic problems [e]
- Dietetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dowsing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Emotional Freedom Techniques [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eye Motion Desensitization Reprocessing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hypnosis [r]: A presumed altered state of consciousness in which the hypnotized individual is usually more susceptible to suggestion than in his or her normal state. [e]
- Iridology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kinesiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Massage [r]: Systematic, applied manipulation of body tissues with the hands to relieve pain and reduce swelling, relax muscles, and speed healing after strains and sprains. [e]
- Phytotherapy [r]: The therapeutic use of plants or plant extracts to prevent or treat disease; it is most commonly a form of complementary and alternative medicine, following long culturally-specific traditions such as herbalism. Chemically extracted and concentration-controlled plant-derived substances are used in conventional medicine, but are usually not considered phytotherapy. [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Meditation [r]: A variety of techniques that help isolate one's thinking from external stimuli, to induce a state of rest, or a state in which spiritual issues may be contemplated [e]
- Music therapy [r]: The planned and creative use of music to attain and maintain health and well being. [e]
- Naturopathy [r]: A healing art that does not use drugs, surgery, or other interventional technique, but concentrates on the physical environment, diet, massage, and other means considered part of nature [e]
- Nursing [r]: A health sciences profession concerned with promoting and optimizing health; minimizing illness, morbidity, and mortality; alleviation of suffering through understanding its causes and means of alleviating it; and advocating the appropriate health care of individuals, families, communities, and populations [e]
- Nutritional medicine [r]: The treatment of signficant diseases, not directly related to a specific nutrient deficiency or food sensitivity, principally using a specialized diet [e]
- Radionics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reflexology [r]: The systematic, manual stimulation of the reflex maps located on the feet, hands and outer ears that resembles a shape of the human body (Reflexological Society of America) [e]
- Shiatsu [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spiritual therapies [r]: Mystical, religious or spiritual practices performed for health benefit. [e]
- Therapeutic touch [r]: A form of energy healing, performed by a therapist positioning hands over the patient's body, and sensing and adjusting energy fields [e]
- Traditional Chinese medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yoga [r]: Add brief definition or description
