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| Acupressure | Pressure is applied with fingers, palms, thumbs, or elbows to specific pressure points of the body to stimulate and regulate the flow of energy.
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| Acupuncture | Ancient Chinese therapy that involves the insertion of very thin needles into specific points along the pathways in the body to stimulate and balance the flow of energy.
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| Antioxidants | Nutritional therapy that encourages the substances called antioxidents to prevent or inhibit oxidation.
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| Biofeedback | Relaxation therapy that uses monitoring devices to provide a patient with information about his or her reaction to stress by showing the effect of stress on heart rate, respirations, blood pressure, muscle tension, and skin temperature.
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| Healing Touch | Ancient Japanese/Tibetan heaking art based in the idea that disease causes and inbalance in the body's energy field.
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| Herbal or Botanical Medicine | Uses herbal medicines that have been used in almost all cultures since promitive times; based on the belief that herbs and plant extracts, from roots, stems, seeds, flowers, and leaves cotain compounds that alter blood chemistry.
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| Hemeopathy | Uses water in any form, interallu and externally, for healing purposes.
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| Hypnotherapy | Techinique used to induce a trance-like state so a person is more recepitive to suggestion and enhances a person's ability to form images.
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| Imagery | Technique of usuing imagination and as many senses as possible to cisualuize a pleasant and soothing image.
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| Ionization Therapy | Special machines called air ionizers are used to produce negatively charged air particales or ions; used to treat common respiratory problems.
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| Macrobiotic Diet | Nutrition therapy based on the Taoist concept of the balance between yin(cold) and yang(heat)
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| Meditation | Therapy that teaches breating and miscle relaxation techiniques to quiet the mind.
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| Pet Therapy | Uses pets, such as dogs, to engance health and stimulate an unterest in life.
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| Phytochemicals | Nutritional theraoy that recommends foods containing plant chemicals with belife that the chemicals prevent disease.
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| Play Therapy | Uses toys to allow children to learn about situations and express their emotions.
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| Positive Thought | Therapy that involves devolping self-awareness, self-esteem, and love for ones self.
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| Reflexology | Acient healing art based in the concept that the body is divided into 10 equal zones that run from thye head to the toes.
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| Spiritual Therapies | Uses prayer and meditation to allow and individual to use the powers within it oncrease the since of well being.
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| Tai Chi | Based on the ancient theory that health is harmony with nature.
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| Therapeudic Massage | Uses kneeding, gliding, friction, tapping, and vibrating motions by the hands to increase circulation.
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| Therapudic Touch | Practionier assesses alterations or changes in a patients energy field.
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| Yoga | Hindu disipline that uses cincetration.
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