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Alternative Medicine 1
Alternative Medicine first test
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Health Care
Undergraduate 4
02/03/2010

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Term
medicine
Definition
the field of health, disease, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
Term
allopathy
Definition
(MD) divides body up into pieces and treats with opposites (body's hot so cool it down)
Term
holistic medicine
Definition
body, mind, and spirit
Term
Wellness
Definition
Has 6 dimensions, social, psysical, emotional, spiritual, environmental, and occupational
Term
CAM
Definition
safe and effective complementory modalities that are used together with conventional modalities or alternative modalities
-they are medical interventions not taught by us schools or practiced in us hospitals.
Term
Integrative medicine
Definition
the practice of adding complementary modalities to conventional ones
Term
5 fields of CAM Practice
Definition

1) Mind-body medicine-uses a variety of techniques to enhance the mind's ability to affect bodily function and symptoms

Ex) prayer, meditation, hypnotherapy

2) Biology based-uses substances found in nature, such as herbs and vitamins

Ex) Aromatherapy, oils, herbs

3) manipulative and body based therapies-

Ex) chiropractor, exercise

4) Energy medicine-involves use of energy field

Ex) ten's unit, magnetic therapy

5) medical systems - built upon complete systems of theory and practice

Ex) traditional chinese medicine, american indian medicine

Term
Copers for managing Stress
Definition

1. Responding

2. reframing

3. retreating

4. reacting

5. refocusing

6. relaxing

7. creating a scarad place

8. exercising

9. laughing

10. Get real

 

Term
Epinephrine
Definition
Short term stress hormone
Term
Cortisol
Definition
Long term stress hormone
Term
Alpha Waves
Definition
have greater amplitute and are shown during the relaxed state.
Term
beta waves
Definition
shown during alert states.  Frequency is closer together, and there is little amplitude
Term

Information Substances

Definition

-are manufactured in every organ/cell, and they communicate, interact, and cooperate with the neruvous system and all other systems, organs, and cells.

-They are protiens

-they function to carry data to other cells and tissues

-they are similar to hormones in that they are produced in one tissue in the body and are delivered through the body by bodily fluids to have thier effect on distant tissues

 

Term
Stress
Definition
the preception of a threat, and the preception of being unable to cope with that threat
Term
neuroplasticity
Definition
the brains ability to reorganize itself by forming neural connections
Term
Neuropeptide
Definition
can act as hormones or neurtransmitters
Term
T Cell
Definition

-cell mediated immunity

-regulates cell maturation in bone marrow

 

Term
Neuroplasticity
Definition
the changing of neurons, the originatin of their networks, and their function via new experiences
Term
B lymphocyte
Definition

humoral immune response

-makes Ab's agains Ag's

Term
cell mediated immunity
Definition
does not involve Ab's, but does involve macrophages, NK cells and T lymphocytes
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Humoral Immunity
Definition
mediated by secreted Ab's produced by B cells
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