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Detox diets Detox diets are dietary plans that claim to have detoxifying effects. Scientists, dietitians, and doctors, while generally judging ‘detox diets’ harmless (unless nutritional deficiency results), often dispute the value and need of ‘detox diets’ due to lack of supporting factual evidence. Detox diets can involve consuming extremely limited foods (only water or juice, [...]

Herbert Macgolfin Shelton (6 October 1895–1 January 1985) was an American alternative medicine advocate, author, pacifist, vegetarian, and supporter of raw foodism and fasting cures. Shelton was nominated by the American Vegetarian Party to run as its candidate for President of the United States in 1956. He saw himself as the champion of original Natural [...]

alternative medicine

* Faith healing * Fasting * Feldenkrais method * Feng shui * Fire cupping * floatation therapy * Flower essence therapy * Folk medicine * Chinese food therapy * Free World Trust v. Électro Santé Inc. * Frequency Specific Microcurrent * Functional medicine Adapted from the Wikipedia article Index of alternative medicine articles, under the [...]

Homeopathy

Chet Day currently earns his living owning and operating a large natural health website called ‘Health and Beyond’ in rural North Carolina. He has a lot of various recipes, diet advice, and various treatments for alternative medicine such as fasting and homeopathy. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Chet Day, under the G. N. U. Free [...]

Craniosacral Therapy

Bernard Jensen (March 25, 1908 – February 22, 2001) was a chiropractor, entrepreneur, and the author of numerous books and articles on health and healing. Jorgen Bernard Jensen was born in Stockton, California to Eugene and Anna Jensen. In 1929, Jensen graduated from the West Coast Chiropractic College in Oakland, California. Jensen went on to [...]

Traditional medicine

Traditional practitioners use a wide variety of treatments ranging from “magic” to biomedical methods such as fasting and dieting, herbal therapies, bathing, massage, and surgical procedures. Migraines, coughs, abscesses, and pleurisy are often cured using the method of “bleed-cupping” after which an herbal ointment is applied with follow-up herbal drugs. Animals are also sometimes used [...]

Lovewisdom produced many books in English and Spanish on breatharianism, fasting, fruitarianism, natural hygiene, naturopathy, orthopathy, parthenogenesis, vitalism, yoga traditions, aquarian eugenics and ascensional science. Further topics included: anthropology, clairvoyance, body chemistry, comparative anatomy, geophysical changes, lemurian genesis, neuro-cerebropathology, organiculture, plant botany, tropical colonization and esoteric dietetics in religion, history and metaphysics. From the 1990s, [...]

The focus of Naturopathy is on its philosophy of natural self-healing rather than specific methods, and practitioners use a wide variety of treatment modalities. Some methods rely on immaterial “vital energy fields”, the existence of which has not been proven, and there is concern that naturopathy as a field tends towards isolation from general scientific [...]

Reiki

Reiki, ”n. Alternative Med.” Brit. /ˈreɪki/, U.S. /ˈreɪki/. Forms: also with capital initial. [‹ Japanese ''reiki'', specialised use of a term usually meaning 'mysterious atmosphere, miraculous sign' (1001; compare Chinese ''língqì'' numinous atmosphere) ‹ ''rei'' soul, spirit (‹ Middle Chinese) + ''ki'' vital energy (‹ the Middle Chinese base of Chinese ''qì'' chi n.2).] The [...]

Detoxification is an alternative medicine approach which proponents claim rid the body of “toxins”, accumulated harmful substances that are alleged to exert a negative effect on individual health – usually in the form of dieting, fasting, consuming exclusively, or avoiding specific foods such as fats, carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables, juices, herbs or water, through colon cleansing, [...]

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