Alternative Medicine and Your Diet

One of the things that practitioners of the alternative medicine industry push is the fact that what you put into your body has an intense effect on your health. Many practitioners will recommend herbs, vitamins and other supplements to assist the average person with occasional complaints, but for people with chronic or serious illnesses [...]

Aromatherapy: Common Essential Oils

There has been a huge influx of people interested in aromatherapy over the course of the last five years. The reason for this could be the burgeoning interest in all alternative therapies. But no matter the reason, major retailers have jumped onto the aromatherapy bandwagon and now provide easy access to a number [...]

Healing Your Body Naturally: Detoxification

Everyone has heard of detoxifying diets. They are all the rage now, and a person can find about one hundred different books on the subject at any bookstore. And while it might seem like a trendy or fad diet, there are actually quite a few reasons why a detox diet might be a [...]

Music Therapy and Your Emotional Wellbeing

Besides its vast uses as a method of pain control by cancer patients and other people who suffer from chronic painful health conditions, music therapy can also be used for the treatment of emotional disorders. There has been particular use of music therapy in the treatment of mental disorders like anxiety and even in [...]

Reflexology: Agony of De-Feet (and Hands)

Reflexology is a fascinating practice that involves massage-like therapies on the body to induce specific physical responses in the patient. Reflexologists use pressure and rubbing techniques much like massage therapists do. But the reflexologist is limited to the hands and feet, where a massage therapist concentrates on the entire body.
Reflexologists go by reflexology [...]

Markers and Crayons: Not Just for Kids

Have you ever watched a young child drawing with markers or crayons on a blank piece of paper? They seem to be able to let go and scribble with an abandon rarely matched by an adult. And why would an adult want to doodle for no reason? Because there might be a [...]

Music to Your Ears (and Mind, and Body)

When you think of music therapy, what do you think of? Perhaps you think of a person sitting quietly on a park bench listening to their MP3 player. Or maybe you think of a sterile laboratory environment where a patient listens to different types of music and a technician or researcher uses electrodes [...]

Music Therapy and Your Emotional Wellbeing

Besides its vast uses as a method of pain control by cancer patients and other people who suffer from chronic painful health conditions, music therapy can also be used for the treatment of emotional disorders. There has been particular use of music therapy in the treatment of mental disorders like anxiety and even in [...]

Subjectivity in Homeopathy

Few people know that the practice of homeopathy is actually very subjective. This means that homeopaths use their own judgment and opinions to choose the correct treatments for a patient. This means that the same patient could get two completely different treatments for the same ailment from two different homeopaths.
So how [...]

Aromatherapy: Aromatic Blending and Therapeutic Blending

While the term “aromatherapy” technically refers to the use of essential oils and plant extracts to produce a therapeutic effect in a person, many people enjoy blending essential oils simply for their fragrances. Blending for fragrance is a wonderful idea, but the blender should be aware of the therapeutic uses of the oils he [...]

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