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| | Science, Faith, and Alternative Medicine - Policy Review, No. 108 |
 | | Alternative medicine includes some therapies that have proven value and are consistent with modern science, but it also includes other therapies that may have no value at all, and if they did, would challenge the basic assumptions of science. | | | Because alternative medicine is not confined by the limits of rational or testable knowledge, its powers of explanation are enormous, and patients leave the alternative medicine clinic thinking that their troubles have real spiritual significance. | | | Much of alternative medicine relies on physical practices that are commonly used in conventional (allopathic) medicine: pill-taking, needle-poking, and the application of heat and pressure. |
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http://www.policyreview.org/AUG01/dworkin.html
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| | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE FACTS AND INFORMATION |
| | Advocates of alternative medicine hold that the various alternative treatment methods are effective in treating a wide range of major and minor medical conditions, and contend that recently published research (such as Michalsen 2003, Gonsalkorale 2003, and Berga 2003) proves the effectiveness of specific alternative treatments. | | | Although advocates of alternative medicine acknowledge that the placebo_effect may play a role in the benefits that some receive from alternative therapies, they point out that this does not diminish their validity. | | | Alternative medicine broadly describes methods and practices used in place of, or in addition to, conventional medical treatments. |
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http://www.dontpayyourtaxes.com/alternative_medicine
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| | History Of Medicine -- Recommendations and Resources |
| | Traditional Chinese medicine has more than 5,000 years of history as a system of medicine that is based on a philosophical concept of balance (yin and yang, Qi, Blood, Jing, Bodily fluids, the Five Elements, the emotions, and the spirit) approach to health that is rooted in Taoist philosophy and Chinese culture. | | | Western approaches to alternative medicine have more than 3,000 years of history behind them as systems of medicine based on natural philosophies that are rooted in ''all'' aspects of Western culture. | | | As with traditional Chinese medicine, the concept of it as an alternative form of therapeutic practise is only found in the Western world. |
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| | Alternative medicine is not part of the dominant system for managing health and disease per Wayne Jonas MD, Director of the office of Alternative Medicine Office at NIH. | | | Conventional medicine's ultimate claim to success is in The Cure, while alternative medicine's success is in Healing. | | | These Medical Refugees run to Alternative Medicine where treatment is gentler and service is personalized, where you get massages and aromatherapy and meditation, but little medicine. |
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| | Natural Health Glossary |
| | Alternative therapies is, thus, the preferred term for self-care alternative healing methods and covers therapies like aromathreapy, herbal medicines, visualization, meditation, and yoga. | | | Alternative medicine is simply an after the fact modern classification of phenomena that has been going on for hundreds, if not thousands of years, long before biomedicine arrived on the scene. | | | Heroic medicine, in short, is aggressive, reckless and foolhardy medicine that has a high potential for harming the patient. |
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http://naturalhealthperspective.com/tutorials/glossary.html
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| | Choosing an Alternative Practitioner - Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington |
| | Chinese Herbal Medicine: This form of herbal medicine is integrated into the larger system of traditional Chinese medicine, and uses combination herbal therapies with the intention of bringing the body into balance, rather than to merely treat diseases. | | | The first step in choosing a good alternative practitioner is actually identifying the type of alternative therapy you would like to use. | | | Once youve chosen a type of alternative medicine, you must choose a practitioner in that field. |
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| | Complementary and Alternative Medicine News and Views |
| | Many alternative practitioners are unlicensed (except for chiropractic, and in some states, acupuncturists, naturopaths, and homeopathic therapists) and unregulated, particularly those dealing in alternative nutritional therapy. | | | The adherents of these fields, however, state that "most alternative systems of medicine hold some common beliefs."2 Many theories of alternative medicine attempt to pose a single explanation for most human illness; the therapy is thought to correct the source of the problem, not merely treat its symptoms. | | | Complementary medicine refers to a group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that exist largely outside the institutions where conventional health care is taught and provided. |
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http://healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Alternative-medicine
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| | Alternative Medicine Research Resources |
| | In this sense, modern western "allopathic" medicine was one of the first branches of alternative medicine utilized by man. Alternative medicine as it is known today is really the evolution of medical science, indeed the second iteration of medical science. | | | Its primary focus is toward treating underlying causes, strengthening immune system function, and restoring balance to the body, rather than simply treating symptoms, offering palliative care, and utilizing drugs to suppress or enhance body functions. | | | Alternative medicine may hold the answers to serious health issues |
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http://www.scalar-is.com/alternative-medicine.html
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| | Medicine, International Medical Portal, Alternative Medicine Center,Alternative Medicine Research Center,Alternative ... |
| | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health Practices are amongst the most sought after career choices amongst today’s modern generation. | | | With the world on the threshold of path breaking changes in the field of health and medicine, there is a growing realization that contrary to previously held beliefs; conventional medicine (the medicine that most people are familiar with: antibiotics, surgery, etc.) cannot solve all our health problems. | | | The objective of our Institute is to provide the students with ample opportunity to develop their learning skills in their own ambience, study according to their own time frame and simultaneously integrate their course curriculum into their personal lifestyle. |
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| | Health Care Information Resources -- Alternative Medicine |
| | Alternative Medicine Foundation is a U.S. charitable organization which is formed to provide evidence-based resources for health care professionals and reliable information on alternatives to conventional western biomedicine for patients and consumers. | | | Alternative Medicine which include access to many topics, such as: addictions, alternative therapies, bodywork, holistic health, insurance plans, oriental/eastern medicine and a whole variety of individual conditions/diseases. | | | Alternative Health News Online is prepared by journalists for the public and aims at helping us to separate the hogwash from the promising therapies in alternative medicine. |
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| | Alternative Health Books |
| | The world of alternative medicine is diverse and sometimes self-contradicting, so this book takes a balanced look at each methods, exploring its strengths and weaknesses, and distinguishing between what is useful and what is not so that the readers can make an informed decision about their health. | | | Whatever the reason, alternative medicine has had a profound influence on the way people approach their health care. | | | Steven Bratman examines the various branches of alternative medicine, including homeopathy, movement therapies, bodywork, naturopathy, and Chinese medicine. |
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http://saxakali.com/BookStore/saxbsh1.htm
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| | holistic medicine: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | An approach to medicine that emphasizes treating the person as a whole, with special attention to the interconnections of the mind and body and of the systems within the body. | | | Stressing personal responsibility for health, a holistic approach may include conventional medicine and various nontraditional methods of diagnosis and therapy, e.g., acupuncture, biofeedback, faith healing, folk medicine, megavitamin therapy, meditation, and yoga. | | | holistic medicine, system of health care based on a concept of the “whole” person as one whose body, mind, spirit, and emotions are in balance with the environment. |
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| | Alternative Medicine Institute,Alternative MedicineResearch,Institute of Alternative Medicine,Alternative Medicine ... |
| | The Institute is all set to publish a directory of individual alternative medical practitioners and organisations / institutions in the field of alternative medicine. | | | The directory which will be a voluminous will also include information about publishers of books and magazines on alternative medicines and allied subjects, research institutes, hospitals, clinics, health centres including spas and resorts besides manufacturers and dealers of alternative medical equipment. | | | Alternative Medicine Institute,Alternative MedicineResearch,Institute of Alternative Medicine,Alternative Medicine Research Centre,Institute of Alternative Medicine Research |
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| | Complementary & Alternative Medicine |
| | Unfortunately, when promoters presented that kind of atrocious mixture of alternative medicines, they obscured other truly effective traditional varieties of medicine, as herbal medicine. | | | For example, the holists say that science is wrong upon studying the universe just by fractions because each fraction (as well as each human) interacts with the universe, determining a whole. | | | As a final point, these are scientific serious studies that gradually reveal the frauds of some charlatans on medicine. |
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| | Universal Tao Instructor/Practitioner Directory |
| | He is board certified in Anti-aging and Longevity Medicine, co-sponsored by Great Lakes College of Clinical Medicine and American College for the Advancement of Medicine, the top 2 authority and oldest professional organizations in alternative medicine. | | | It is the discipline that incorporates all branches of alternative medicine, like nutritional medicine, environmental medicine, mind-body medicine
, to ensure a longer and happier life than otherwise possible. | | | Anti-aging medicine is the ultimate in alternative medicine. |
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http://www.universal-tao.com/instructors_practitioners/bio/792.html
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| | Databases: The Alternative Medicine Homepage |
| | Includes health promotion, and prevention, accupuncture, allopathic medicine, alternative medicine, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathic medicine, physical therapy, and Chinese medicine. | | | Does contain complementary and alternative medicine therapies [search by words: alternative (medicine or therapy) or complementary (medicine or therapy) or by particular modality: acupuncture or by a particular substance: ginko or shark cartilage | | | AMED- Allied and Complementary Medicine is a unique database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library This database will be of interest to individuals wanting to know more about alternatives to conventional medicine, and includes resources to complementary medicine, palliative care and several professions allied to medicine. |
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| | Internet Public Library: Alternative Medicine |
| | Systems of medical care that are based on methods of treatment or theories of disease that differ from those taught in recognized western-oriented medical schools. | | | Both Alternative and Allopathic Medicine are profiled, as well as other disciplines that can be used to promote healing." Resource links are grouped by subject and annotated. | | | This list of links is part of the Five Branches Institute, College and Clinic of Traditional Chinese Medicine website. |
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| | Five Branches Institute - College of Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| | Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day is observed annually on October 24th to increase public awareness of the progress, promise, and benefits of acupuncture and Oriental medicine. | | | As Chinese medicine doctors we learned a lot of Western medicine and were legally allowed to practice Western medicine. | | | Because it was a Chinese medicine hospital, most of the Doctors graduated from Chinese Medicine College but we also had some Western medicine doctors. |
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http://www.fivebranches.edu/Fall03.asp
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| | Massage Therapy Subweb Page |
| | Ohio is the only state in which massage therapy is considered a limited branch of medicine. | | | The Medical Board licenses massage therapists and regulates massage therapy schools and practitioners through its standing committee on the Limited Branches and Alternative Medicine with the assistance of the Massage Therapy Advisory Committee. | | | Massage Therapy alerts will be posted here as they become available. |
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| | List of branches of alternative medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These articles are either about fully developed systems of alternative medicine or they are about generic alternative methods of treatment. | | | Branches of alternative medicine provides a master list of the articles included in this alternative medicine (CAM) series of articles. |
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| | Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herb Homepage |
| | Chinese Medicine: traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, traditional Chinese herbal medicine, ancient Chinese medicine, et al. | | | Chinese Herb: Chinese herb, Chinese herbal medicine, traditional chinese herbal medicine, golden flower Chinese herb, Chinese medicine herb, Chinese herb dictionary, et al. | | | Medline Search for Chinese Medicine, Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture |
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| | The Will Of God In Healing - Christian-Faith.com |
| | Nevertheless there is value in some natural remedies, as well as in traditional western science, and we need not oppose these things. | | | If He is no longer today “The Lord who Heals You”, He has changed or He has lied. | | | It is also true that some branches of natural medicine can bring dramatic health improvements to sufferers, by providing the body with certain naturally occurring chemical compounds which speed up the body’s process of self-healing. |
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http://www.christian-faith.com/html/page/the_will_of_god_in_healing
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| | The Brights' Movement Forums -> Why is superstition dangerous? |
| | I would not condemn all alternative medicine as useless and harmful. | | | My parents are practicing some sort of meditation that has cured cancer for 3 "terminal" cancer patients which the docters said would not live. | | | A few years ago, there was a case of an alternative healer (an Iatrosophist, whatever that may be) who treated a cancer patient by letting him play the piano and eat grass (this is not a joke). |
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| | Health Quest News - Free Newsletter on Herbology, Aromatherapy, etc. |
| | Free Health Newsletter Sports and Fitness Medicine, Herbology, Aromatherapy Natural Medicine Information Clinical Research Articles Papers Reviews Herbology Essential Oils Alternative News | | | Each month, as we receive peer-reviewed medical research, we write summaries of the information, which we would be glad to send to you, for free. | | | The address and other non-essential information, if you wish to include it, is only for our demographics, which helps us to serve you better. |
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