alternative medicine

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Saw palmetto extract – Introduction

Saw palmetto extract is an extract of the fruit of ”Serenoa repens”. It is rich in fatty acids and phytosterols. It has been used in traditional, eclectic, and alternative medicine for a variety of indications, most notably benign prostatic hyperplasia. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Saw palmetto extract, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation [...]

Sclerology – Introduction

Sclerology is an alternative medicine practice in which the sclera, the white of the eye, is examined. The physical characteristics of the sclera, such as shape and location of markings, are posited to be related to systemic health. According to advocates, examination of the sclera reveals a great number of disease processes and is capable [...]

Magnet therapy – Introduction

Magnet therapy, magnetic therapy, or magnotherapy is an alternative medicine practice involving the use of static magnetic fields. Practitioners claim that subjecting certain parts of the body to magnetostatic fields produced by permanent magnets has beneficial health effects. Magnet therapy is considered pseudoscientific due to both physical and biological implausibility, as well as a lack [...]

Alternative – Culture and society

* Alternative comics, a genre of comic strips and books * Alternative comedy, a range of styles used by comedians and writers in the 1980s * Alternative culture, a variety of subcultures existing along the fringes of mainstream culture * Alternative dispute resolution, processes and techniques outside the traditional mainstream of jurisprudence * Alternative fashion, [...]

Champissage – Introduction

Champissage, also known as an Indian head massage (possibly a portmanteau of chāmpi, the Hindi term for the practice, and massage) is a trademarked term for an alternative medicine massage therapy. In champissage, the head, neck and face are massaged with the purpose of manipulating energy channels. The goal is to clear blocks in these [...]

Tocopherol – Other uses

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness in the United States and the developed world among people 65 years and older. It has been shown that vitamin E alone does not attenuate the development or progression of AMD. However, studies focusing on efficacy of Vitamin [...]

Hiptage benghalensis – Uses

”H. benghalensis” is widely cultivated in the tropics for its attractive and fragrant flowers; it can be trimmed to form a small tree or shrub or can be trained as a vine. It is also occasionally cultivated for medicinal purposes in the alternative medicine practice ”ayurveda”: the leaves and bark are hot, acrid, bitter, insecticidal, [...]

Trick or Treatment – Introduction

”Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial” (North American title: ”Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine”) is a 2008 book about alternative medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst. Singh is a physicist and the writer of several popular science books. Ernst is a professor of complementary medicine. Adapted from the Wikipedia [...]

Asthma – Management

A specific, customized plan for proactively monitoring and managing symptoms should be created. Someone who has asthma should understand the importance of reducing exposure to allergens, testing to assess the severity of symptoms, and the usage of medications. The treatment plan should be written down and adjusted according to changes in symptoms. The most effective [...]

Essential oil – Introduction

essential oil is a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile, ethereal oils or aetherolea, or simply as the “oil of” the plant from which they were extracted, such as ”oil of clove”. An oil is “essential” in the sense that it carries a distinctive scent, [...]

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