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  • Acupressure for Alertness

    Article
    12/04/06, Prevention

    Just 15 minutes a day keeps fatigue at bay.

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  • Healing Touch

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Healing touch influences a person's physical or emotional health without anyone physically touching the person. Healing touch is a common practice. Healing touch is related to spiritual or energy healing, therapeutic touch, and distant he

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  • Homeopathy

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Homeopathy, or homeopathic medicine, is a medical philosophy and practice based on the idea that the body has the ability to heal itself. Homeopathy was founded in the late 1700s in Germany and has been widely practiced throughout Europe.

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  • Naturopathic Medicine

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Naturopathic medicine (or naturopathy) is based on the belief that the body can heal itself naturally. Naturopathic medicine attempts to improve health, prevent disease, and treat illness by promoting the use of organic foods and exercis

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  • Ayurveda

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Ayurveda, or ayurvedic medicine, is a healthy-lifestyle system that people in India have used for more than 5,000 years. Ayurveda emphasizes good health and prevention of illness through lifestyle practices (such as massage, meditation, y

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  • Aromatherapy (Essential Oils Therapy)

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Aromatherapy, or essential oils therapy, is using a plant's aroma-producing oils (essential oils) to treat disease. Essential oils are taken from a plant's flowers, leaves, stalks, bark, rind, or roots. The oils are mixed with another sub

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  • Chinese Medicine

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Chinese medicine is a system of medicine partly based on the idea that an energy, called qi (pronounced "chee"), flows along pathways in the body called meridians. In this belief, if the flow of qi along these meridians is blocked or unba

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  • Complementary Medicine

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Complementary medicine is a term used for a wide variety of health care practices that may be used along with standard medical treatment.

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  • Music Therapy

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Music therapy is the use of music to gain physical and emotional healing and wellness. A trained and certified music therapist, dance/movement therapist, or creative 'arts expressive' therapist can provide music therapy. Therapy sessions

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  • Acupuncture

    Article
    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Acupuncture is a Chinese therapy that has been used for centuries. It is based on the theory that there is energy, called chi or qi, flowing through your body. Chi is thought to flow along energy pathways called meridians. Acupuncturists

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