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3 unusual facts about Alternative medicine


Clouding of consciousness

Alternative medicine practitioners popularly use the term brain fog.

Shiroda, Goa

Shoroda houses one engineering colleges of Goa, Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology and two colleges of Alternative medicine the Ayurveda College & Research Centre and Shri Kamaxshi Devi Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital.

Wolds College

Until September 2012 the college provided courses covering hairdressing (in collaboration with Wella), beauty therapy, nail care services and holistic therapy.


Allopathic medicine

Allopathic medicine is an expression commonly used by homeopaths and proponents of other forms of alternative medicine to refer to mainstream medical use of pharmacologically active agents or physical interventions to treat or suppress symptoms or pathophysiologic processes of diseases or conditions.

Bodymind

Bodymind therapy combines the strengths of "talk" therapy with bodywork, such as touch, postural alignment, or movement education and exercise with psychotherapy (that is, including verbal dialog, psychodrama, role play, narrative storytelling etc.) by inducing the use of ‘affectregulation’.

Deborah King Center

Deborah King Center is an organization focused on health and wellness author and spiritual teacher Deborah King.

Kinetic Awareness

Kinetic Awareness is a system of bodywork originated by the American choreographer Elaine Summers in the second half of the 20th century, starting in the 1950s.

Kloka Anna i Vallåkra

Anna Jönsdotter (1820-1896), known as Kloka Anna i Vallåkra (Wise Anna of Vallåkra) or Vallåkraflickan (The Vallåkra Girl), was a Swedish cunning woman and natural healer.

Marc Hunter

For the last few months of his life, Hunter underwent various forms of treatment including several alternative medicine remedies but none were successful and he died in Berry near Kiama on 17 July 1998.

Nick Fyffe

Fyffe regularly takes part in 'The Sunflower Jam', an annual live music event intended to raise money to provide alternative medicine in National Health Service hospitals.

Raymond A. Palmer

In 1948, Palmer and Curtis Fuller co-founded Fate, which covered divination methods, Fortean events, belief in the survival of personality after death, predictive dreams, accounts of ghosts, mental telepathy, archaeology, flying saucer sightings, cryptozoology, alternative medicine, warnings of death, and other paranormal topics, many contributed by readers.

The College of Medicine

It originated from the collapse of the Prince of Wales' controversial Foundation for Integrated Health, which was widely criticised for promoting integrated medicine and alternative medicine.

The Wurn Technique

The Wurn Technique is a physical therapy technique used as a form of alternative medicine that promoters assert can be used to treat pain, infertility, sexual dysfunction and adhesion-related conditions.

Wastebasket diagnosis

Many alternative medicine diagnoses, such as candida overgrowth and multiple chemical sensitivities, are considered trashcan diagnoses by medical personnel.


see also

Bodywork

Rosen Method Bodywork, a type of Complementary and alternative medicine

Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon

To help her recover from her medical treatments, Tryon became very interested in alternative medicine and a wide variety of spiritual practices; she also decided to undertake a retreat in the Himalayas.

Do You Believe in Magic

: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, a book by Paul Offit

EAV

Electroacupuncture according to Voll, a pseudoscientific alternative medicine diagnostic device

George Lewith

A 2006 BBC documentary series, Alternative Medicine, was criticised by several people, including Lewith, in the Guardian over a controversial sequence in which acupuncture appeared to be used as a replacement for general anaesthesia during open heart surgery.

Mike Adams

Mike Adams, owner of NaturalNews, a site promoting alternative medicine and conspiracy theories

Rebirthing

Rebirthing-breathwork, a form of alternative medicine mainly consisting of a breathing technique

Siegmeister

Walter Siegmeister, also known as Raymond W. Bernard, American practitioner of alternative medicine

Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara

Tirso del Junco Jr, MD; only surgeon in the United States performing Female Alternative Surgery; Institute for Female Alternative Medicine.