Complementary and alternative medicine/Related Articles

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Parent topics[edit]

• Health science [r]: The helping professions that use applied science to improve health and to treat disease. ^[e]
• Pseudoscience [r]: Any theory, or system of theories, that is deceptively claimed to be scientific. ^[e]
• Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine ^[e]

Subtopics[edit]

Methods[edit]

• Acupressure [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Acupuncture [r]: A form of alternative medicine that involves inserting and manipulating needles into 'acupuncture points' on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being. ^[e]
• Aromatherapy [r]: A form of complementary and alternative medicine whose adherents claim it to be a gentle but effective method of healing and enhancing the mind, body, and spirit through the use of natural oils from aromatic plants, trees and grasses. ^[e]
• Ayurveda [r]: A traditional Hindu system of medicine, part of complementary and alternative medicine, using mind-body interactions and herbs ^[e]
• Bach flower therapy [r]: A form of complementary medicine that uses remedies based on extracts from flowers, to improve what it terms vibrations, a class of biofields in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine taxonomy ^[e]
• Biofeedback [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Breatharianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chelation therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cupping [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chiropractic [r]: A complementary, alternative health-care profession that aims to heal using manual therapies on the spine and extremities. ^[e]
• Ear candling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Eye Motion Desensitization Reprocessing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Homeopathy [r]: System of alternative medicine involving administration of highly diluted substances with the intention to stimulate the body's natural healing processes, not considered proven by mainstream science. ^[e]
• Iridology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kinesiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Magnetic therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 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]
• Moxabustion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Natural Stress Relief Meditation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naturopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Osteopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Phytotherapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Psychoanalysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Qi [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Qigong [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rebirthing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reiki [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reflexology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shamanism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Therapeutic touch [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Traditional Chinese medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Transcendental Meditation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Urine therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Yoga [r]: Add brief definition or description

Theories[edit]

• Qi [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vitalism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics[edit]

• Hospice and palliative medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Palliative care [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Pain medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Physical and rehabilitation medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Placebo effect [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Relaxation (physiology) [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Information management [r]: Add brief definition or description
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• Scientific misconduct [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Brook Farm [r]: Add brief definition or description