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Alternative medicine is a conventional method of healing the disease by examining the symptoms without collecting clinical evidences. The term Alternative Medicine implies any type of medication that is outside the standard of western or customary drug. Alternative medicine describes any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but which lacks biological plausibility and is untested or untestable. In some cases AM treatments are proven ineffective. Complementary medicine (CM), Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), Integrated Medicine or Integrative Medicine (IM), and holistic medicine are among many rebrandings of the same phenomenon. Alternative Therapies share in common that they reside outside medical science, and rely on pseudoscience. Alternative medicine is distinct from experimental medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical trials, producing evidence of either effect or of no effect. Research into alternative therapies often fails to follow proper research protocol and denies calculalaton of prior probability, providing invalid results. Traditional practices become "alternative" when used outside their original settings without proper scientific explanation and evidence. Frequently used derogatory terms for the alternative are new-age or pseudo, with little distinction from quackery. There are sure nations that are moving towards the legitimization of some Alternative medication treatments that are being upheld with endorsed clinical information.
- Anthroposophic Medicine
- Auriculotherapy
- Auto Immune Diseases
- Ayurvedic Medicine
- Bio Resonance Therapy
- Chromotherapy
- Complementary Medicine
- Holistic Medicine
- Homeopathy
Thousand years ago, ancient China gives birth to Traditional Chinese Medicine. It includes many Body & Mind practices, for example, Acupuncture, Tui-na (Chinese therapeutic massage), Moxibustion (burning an herb above the skin to apply heat to acupuncture points), Qigong (practices that combine specific movements or postures, coordinated breathing, and mental focus), Tai-chi, Chinese herbal medicine and Dietary therapy. TCM is engrained in the olden thinking of Taoism and dates back more than 2,500 years. Some of the same practices also found in Easter and Southern countries such as Korea and Japan, In Japan, this treatment is known as Kempo. They are having the almost same system, but each has developed individual landscapes of its own.
- Tui na (Massage)
- Qi gong (Exercise)
- Gua Sha
- Die-Da
- Moxibustion
- Cupping
- Acupuncture
- Moxibustion
- Chinese Food Therapy
Acupuncture is the method of inserting needles into the peripheral skin, subcutaneous tissue, and muscles at acupuncture points and negotiate them. The objective of acupuncture is to direct and assign the flow of the Chi, so that the Yin and the Yang return to a state of dynamic equilibrium. Acupuncture desires to diagnose symptoms by curing the disease. It is very effective at relieving the pain and restoring normal function and is often used with electrical stimulation in treating nerve conditions. Acupuncture stimulates the brain to release chemicals such as opioids and neurotransmitters into the body that reduce pain and normalize the nervous system or acupuncture with electrical stimulation interrupts the pain signal allowing the nerve to calm down thereby reducing the pain.
- Laser Acupuncture
- Auricular Acupuncture
- Cosmetic Acupuncture
- Paediatric Acupuncture
- Acupuncture-Cancer Cure
- Acupuncture-Chronic pain
- Acupuncture-Anxiety, Depression
- Korean Hand Acupuncture
- Japanese style Acupuncture
Herbalism ("herbology" or "Herbal Medicine") is utilization of plants for restorative purposes, and the investigation of such utilize. sometimes patients require more than acupuncture to achieve their desired health goals, and herbal therapy is an easy way for patients to treat themselves daily during a treatment protocol. All herbs used at healthy by nature Calgary are patent formulas that are in pill form and require no cooking. Plants have been the premise for medicinal medications through a lot of mankind's history, and such conventional prescription is still generally rehearsed today.
Ayurvedic medicine is one of the world's oldest whole-body healing systems. It was developed more than 3,000 years ago in India. Ayurveda is a personalized approach to health and knowing your mind-body type allows you to make optimal choices about diet, exercise, supplements, and all other aspects of your lifestyle. Ayurveda practitioners believe that every person is made of five basic elements found in the universe: space, air, fire, water, and earth. Ayurveda is a system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. Globalized and modernized practices derived from Ayurveda traditions are a type of alternative medicine. In countries beyond India, Ayurvedic therapies and practices have been integrated in general wellness applications and in some cases in medical use.
- Kayacikitsa: General medicine
- Kaumarbhritya: Paediatrics
- Salakyatantra: Treatment of ailments affecting ears, eyes, nose, mouth, etc.
- Bhutavidya: Pacification of possessing spirits, and the people whose minds are affected by such possession
- Agadatantra: Toxicology
- Rasayanatantra: Rejuvenation
- Vajikaraṇatantra: Aphrodisiacs
- Salyatantra: Surgical techniques
- Panchakarma: Eliminate Toxic Elements from the Body
- Dinacharya : Natural Cycles
Homeopathy is a framework elective drug made in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, in light of his convention of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the indications of a malady in solid individuals would cure comparative side effects in wiped out people. Homeopathic arrangements are not powerful to treat any condition; huge scale thinks about have observed homeopathy to be not any more compelling than a fake treatment, showing that any beneficial outcomes that take after treatment are just because of the misleading impact, typical recuperation from disease, or relapse towards the mean. Its branches are classified broadly as Isopathy - a type of "homeopathic immunization", Blossom arrangements, Veterinary homeopathy: homeopathy utilized as a treatment for different creatures. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition; large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a placebo, indicating that any positive effects that follow treatment are not due to the treatment itself but instead to factors such as normal recovery from illness, or regression toward the mean.
Yoga is the other name for the Sanskrit word Yuj. It is the blend of soul with the Spirit. Yoga is the 5000-year-old Indian practice of gaining spiritual peace within oneself. One can see Yoga as a physical exercise which involves twisting and turning of the body in the most difficult way including different breathing techniques, but these are the actual ways to unfold the potentials of the human mind and soul. Absorb the essence of yoga for a new way of life and health. Yoga offers a multitude of mental and physical benefits. In the modern era of yoga, advances in technology and accessibility of information allow researchers to test and prove these benefits that have been discussed for generations.
Meditation is a precise technique for resting the mind and attaining a state of consciousness that is totally different from the normal waking state. It is the means for fathoming all the levels of ourselves and finally experiencing the center of consciousness within.
Unani solution, additionally called Unani tibb, Arabian prescription, or Islamic pharmaceutical, a customary arrangement of recuperating and wellbeing support saw in South Asia. The inceptions of Unani medication are found in the tenets of the old Greek doctors Hippocrates and Galen. As a field, it was later created and refined through precise trial by the Arabs, most noticeably by Muslim researcher doctor Avicenna. Amid the Caliphate (the political-religious Muslim express that started in 632 ce), the majority of Greek information was converted into Arabic, some portion of that learning being the standards of pharmaceutical. With extra commitments of restorative astuteness from different parts of the Middle East and South Asia, Unani solution came to be referred to likewise as Arabian, or Islamic, prescription.
Physiotherapy aims to encourage tissue healing by controlling and reducing pain and inflammation and help restore normal range of motion by integrating the muscular, joint and nervous systems. A physiotherapist does treatment by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery. Physiotherapy helps to resolve musculoskeletal problems such as muscle and joint pain, sports injuries, back or neck pain, sprains and strains. Physiotherapists have been trained in the use of exercise therapy to strengthen muscles and improve function. Additional training in the field of acupuncture and dry needling technique to assist pain relief and muscle function have been acquired by many physiotherapists.
Rehabilitation deals with restoring ability or abilities in individuals which had been lost previously due to any kind of accident, trauma or any other health issues. The aim of rehabilitation is to maximise the potential to restore a person who has an impairment, or an incapacity for service or work, as a result of a service injury or disease to at least the same physical and psychological state, and at least the same social, vocational and educational status, as he or she had.
Siddha science is a tradition therapy generated by Tamil civilization. Siddhars were the spiritual adepts who possess ashta siddhis. Eight siddhars are considered to be important in siddha medicine. According to the Siddha medicine therapy, diet and lifestyle play a crucial role in health and in healing diseases. Ayurveda medicine may be a widely known drug having ancient roots within the Indian landmass. Numerous international and current practices had been received from written material traditions which might be a sort of complementary or chance medicine. Ayurvedic treatment choices and practices are assimilated in trendy well-being programs additionally to in a very few instances of clinical use. Primarily cures are based mostly on sophisticated flavoring compounds, while the treatises brought mineral and metal materials for the upper results.
- Yoga
- Manual therapy
- Tattva (Siddha medicine)
- Naturopathy
- Herbs for diabetes
- Anti-inflammatory Herbs
- Panchakarma
Korean medicine traditions originated in ancient and prehistoric times and can be traced back as far as 3000 B.C. when stone and bone needles were found in North Hamgyong Province, in present-day North Korea. Originating centuries ago, Traditional Korean Medicine is an ancient practice of healing that not just cures an illness or ailment, but treats the entire body holistically. Korean medicine refers to the medical practices used in Korea, an ancient history with some overlap with TCM and the healing practices of East Asia. Traditional Korean medicine does not attempt to learn about the body by dissection, experimentation or analysis, but instead observes natural bodily functions as they appear in order to diagnose an illness or ailment. It also never limits the cause of even the most minor ailment to a local one, but examines the entire body to find the reason for the condition. Traditional Korean medicine developed over several millennia according to a unique system. During the Joseon Dynasty, it was considered inappropriate to apply Chinese medicine (which was based on the geological features, climate, and living habits of the Chinese people) to Koreans.
Naturopathic medicine emphasizes on prevention, treatment, and optimal health through the use of therapeutic methods and substances that re-establish the body's inborn capacity to heal itself without the adverse impacts of conventional drug. It is a specific primary health care system that blends modern scientific knowledge with traditional and natural forms of medicine. Naturopaths focus on a holistic approach, completely avoiding the use of surgery and drugs. Naturopaths often prescribe exposure to naturally occurring substances, such as sunshine, herbs and certain foods and encourage activities they describe as natural, such as exercise, meditation and relaxation. In addition to diet and lifestyle changes during treatment, they make use of natural therapies like botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, naturopathic manipulation and Traditional Chinese Medicine or Acupuncture.
Naturopathic medicine emphasizes on prevention, treatment, and optimal health through the use of therapeutic methods and substances that re-establish the body's inborn capacity to heal itself without the adverse impacts of conventional drug. It is a specific primary health care system that blends modern scientific knowledge with traditional and natural forms of medicine. Naturopaths focus on a holistic approach, completely avoiding the use of surgery and drugs. Naturopaths often prescribe exposure to naturally occurring substances, such as sunshine, herbs and certain foods and encourage activities they describe as natural, such as exercise, meditation and relaxation. In addition to diet and lifestyle changes during treatment, they make use of natural therapies like botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, naturopathic manipulation and Traditional Chinese Medicine or Acupuncture.
Indigenous and Tribal medicinal drug refers to the knowledge, expertise and practises primarily based concerning the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous in accordance with different cultures, ancient among the renovation regarding fitness yet within the prevention, diagnosis, enchantment then remedy of bodily yet intellectual illness.
Herbal cosmetics are developed, victimisation completely different cosmetic ingredients to make the bottom during which one or additional herbal ingredients are accustomed cure varied skin ailments. The name itself suggests that flavourer cosmetics Arnatural and free from all the harmful artificial chemicals that otherwise could persuade be cyanogenic to the skin. Nutraceuticals are any sustenance, or a part of nourishment supplements, that provides a healthful or medical advantage past basic sustenance. Such benefits might incorporate the turning away or repeat of disorder. These things go from proteins, a vitamin, minerals, pure mixes and traditional primarily based utilised as a district of cases, tablets to sustenance that contain reinforced bioactive fixings. Everything from vitamins, supplements to sports drinks, dairy farm things, snacks, and pre-arranged uptake routine dinners may be thought-about as Nutraceuticals.
Massage is the manipulation of soft tissues in the body. Massage techniques are commonly applied with hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearms, feet, or a device. The purpose of massage is generally for the treatment of body stress or pain. A person who was professionally trained to give massages was traditionally known as a masseur (male) or a masseuse (female), but those titles are outmoded, and carry some negative connotations. In the United States, the title massage therapist has been recognized as a business norm for those who have been professionally trained to give massages.
In professional settings, clients are treated while lying on a massage table, sitting in a massage chair, or lying on a mat on the floor. In amateur settings, a general purpose surface like a bed or the floor is more common. Aquatic massage and bodywork is performed with recipients submersed or floating in a warm-water therapy pool.
Holistic nutrition is basically a modern natural approach to a healthy diet and considers the individual as a whole, including all aspects of his lifestyle. This natural approach incorporates emotional, spiritual and physical health to create a state of well-being for optimum health. Practioners of Alternative medicine like Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, Herbalists and Nutritionists, agree to the fact that following a diet in accordance to the guidelines of holistic nutrition allows people to heal naturally without the intake of prescription drugs and can help prevent various health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer.
Integrative medication will facilitate people with cancer, persistent pain, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and plenty of alternative conditions higher manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life by reducing exhaustion, anxiety and pain. Integrative medication that focuses on caring for the total human being like body, mind, spirit, and community not simply flesh, bones, and organs—is steady changing into a fascinating and logical possibility for several people.
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Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine concerned with the diagnosis, management and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, and the effects of these disorders on the function of the nervous system and general health. Chiropractors seek to reduce pain and improve the functionality of patients via exercise and other therapies.
Osteopathy is a system of complementary medicine involving the treatment of medical disorders through the manipulation and massage of the skeleton and musculature. Although osteopathy takes a holistic approach to medical care, it also embraces modern medical knowledge, including use of medication, surgery and radiation.
Pharmacognosy is the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources. The term comes from two Greek words ‘pharmakon’ meaning drug and ‘gnosis’ meaning knowledge. Phytochemistry is the branch of chemistry dealing with the chemical processes associated with plant life and the chemical compounds produced by plants.
Phytochemistry is widely used in the field of Chinese medicine especially in the field of herbal medicine. Phytochemical technique mainly applies to the quality control of Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic or herbal medicine of various chemical components, such as saponins, alkaloids, volatile oils, flavonoids and anthraquinones.
Homeopathy remedies could be a technique or treatment that is taken into contemplation to be safe, mild, and flavouring device of recovery that works with frame to alleviate signs and symptoms, repair it, and enhance typical fitness. It’s been terribly secure to use, even operating with terribly young children and pets, as there are a unit none of the aspect results of the many ancient medicines. Therefore, it is terribly less expensive and is created from herbal substances and Food and Drug Administration regulated. Medical aid drugs, is that the follow of medication that embraces a holistic, natural approach to the treatment of the sick. Homoeopathy is holistic as a result of it treats the person as an entire, instead of specializing in an unhealthy half or a tagged illness.
Customary Traditional Medicines are normally happening, plant-inferred substances with insignificant no modern preparing that used to treat ailment inside provincial recuperating rehearses. Conventional Traditional Medicine assumed an unmistakable part in the system to contain and treat extreme intense respiratory disorder. Conventional Complimentary Medicines are getting huge consideration in worldwide wellbeing faces off regarding. Various pharmaceutical associations have examined the potential for making new medicines from conventional cures in Asian market. Wellbeing specialists and law-making bodies of various nations have taken a dynamic enthusiasm for giving institutionalized organic solutions, Traditional Medicine speaks to an essential offer of the pharmaceutical market and keeping in mind that China's yearly home-developed drug creation is worth US $48 billion. Customary Medicine is rapidly making since later of 1990s. In 2017 its yield regard extended by 24%.
Even though traditional medicine has many years of history, It has various ethical issues which need to be addressed for global health recognition. There are some quality issue relating to gathering, gathering, dealing with and creation of home grown and another conventional drug that must be pay special mind to the enhancement of standard worldwide condition. More advanced research and development is needed on dosage production technique. Which is the main mode of action traditional medicine . Also, the clinical preliminaries of drug are essential to comprehend the security and adequacy of the prescribed worldwide market.
Ethnomedicine is a related study of ethnic groups and their use of drugs. Ethnomedicine is distinctly linked to plant use, ethnobotany, as this is the main delivery of pharmaceuticals. Ethnomedicine deals with the interdisciplinary studies between medicinal plants and its uses in different cultural for their therapeutic values. It is based on the combination of the chemical, biological, and pharmacological sciences, which have been considered as a useful tool for natural product based drug discovery.
Oriental medicine has been adapted for more than 2,500 years and covers Acupuncture, Moxibustion, Oriental Massage, Herbal medicine and Oriental nutrition. It is a corresponding treatment plan. Oriental medicine is mainly practiced in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Tibet and India. People may be surprised to find that oriental medicine and method has spread to England, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, much of Middle and South America, and Africa also. It has achieved worldwide acceptance and recognition as effective system of medicine that categorizes body patterns into specific types of diagnoses with medical treatment.