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| traditional or folk beliefs and practices people follow and use to restore HEALTH when they become ILL |
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| Natural science that manipulates reflex points in hands and feet that correspond to every organ in the body |
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| Health beliefs and practices of indigenous cultural development. Not practiced in many of the tenants of modern medicine. |
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| Overheating Therapy (Hyperthermia) |
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| Natural immune system is stimulated with heat to kill pathogens, from Ancient Greece |
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| use of electronic machine to measure skin temps. pt controls responses that are usually involuntary. |
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| use of manipulative techniques to relieve pain and return energy to the body, |
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| 4,000 yr old method of healing from India, chief aim us longevity & quality of life. Most ancient existing medical systems that uses diet, root, seed or berry of a plant. |
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| diet & lifestyle of far East adapted for US by Michio Kushif...vegetarian balancing yin and yang energies of food. |
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| simmered tea made from bark, root, seed or berry of plant. |
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| use of natural environment and use of herbs, plants, minerals and animal substances to prevent and treat illness. |
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| traditional or folk beliefs and practices people follow and use on an infrequent or seasonal basis to keep themselves healthy. |
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| Belief in agents - other than those of scientific nature, causing disease. |
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| imbalance of the person, both with one's being, physical , mental and spiritual -- and the outside world --natural, communal and metaphysical. |
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| Evil spell, misfortune or bad luck that one person can impose on another. |
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| Ancient science that uses essential plant oils to produce strong physical and emotional effects in the body. |
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| An object with magical powers such as charm |
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| Ancient, ethnocultural-religious beliefs and practices that have been handed down through generations |
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| traditional or folk beliefs and practices people follow on daily basis to keep themselves HEALTHY. |
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| use of hypnosis to stimulate emotions and control involuntary responses such as blood pressure |
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| balance of the person, both within one's being, physical, mental & spiritual -- and the outside world -- natural, communal, and metaphysical. |
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| Consecrated religious object that confers powers of various kinds ad protects people who wear, carry or own them from evil or harm. |
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| belief that performing and action will have influence on life events...these beliefs are upheld by magic and faith. |
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| Health beliefs and practices that are derived from current scientific models and involve us of technology and other modalities of present-day health care. Focus on physical health, some consideration of mental health. |
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| System of medicine based on belief that disease can be cured by minute dose of substance that, if given to healthy person in large doses would produce same symptoms that person being treated is experiencing. |
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| hot, soft, moist mass of herbs, four, mustard spread on muslin and placed on sore body part |
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| Health beliefs and practices dervied from traditional cultural (folk) knowledge to maintain, protect and restore health...focus on phydical, mental and spiritual aspects of person. |
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| Harmony of body, mind and spirit |
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| Traditional def of health focuses on... |
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| Inability to perform ADLs |
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| Traditional def of illness focuses on... |
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| Theory - "there is an interference with normal transmissions of mental impulses between the brain and body organs" |
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| practice that uses "structural diagnosis" |
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| "person", not the disease, is focus |
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| system that "embraces methods of proven value in the treatment of disease" |
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| has 4,000 year old medical history |
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| traditional medicine in Japan |
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| wear bangles for protection |
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| A major factor in HEALTH protection is.... |
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| "school" of medicine began in 1870.... |
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| developed by German-American farmer in 1840 |
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