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| What are the different kinds of medicine practices? |
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Conventional medicine
Biomedicine
Allopathic medicine
Alternative medicine
Complementary medicine |
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The mind and body are indivisible
power to solve their own problems
responsible for the patterns of their lives
Well-being is a combination of personal satisfaction and contributions to the larger community |
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| Mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and environmental components |
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Mental health
Emotional health
Physical health
Spiritual health
Environmental health |
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| Dosha - the patient’s basic condition |
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| Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) |
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Qi – life energy-pathways-meridians
Yin
Yang
Oppisite, when healthy they are in balance |
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stimulation to certain parts of body
rooted in the meridians, chi flows tiny whirlpools. manage disruption before disease occurs. Denentia improvments |
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| – breathing and mental exercises combined with body movements |
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| arise of qigong, meditation, and self defence, anyone can move something |
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| created the laws of similairs |
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| a natural substance that produces a given symptom in a healthy person cures it in a sick person |
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| not only a system of medicine but also a way of life with emphasis on client responsibility, client education, health maintenance, and disease prevention |
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| health is a state of balance, especially of the nervous and musculoskeletal system. |
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| Goals of Chiropractic Intervention |
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Reduce or eliminate pain
Correct the spinal dysfunction, thereby restoring bio-mechanical balance to reestablish shock absorption, leverage, and ROM
Preventive maintenance to ensure the problem does not recur |
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Relaxation – restores the balance between the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems
Meditation – relaxing the body and easing the mind
Individuals focus on realigning or creating balance in mental process to bring about healing. |
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| a two-way communication between the conscious and unconscious mind and involves the whole body and all of its senses. |
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| – a state of focused attention that encourages changes in attitudes, behavior, and physiologic reactions |
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most often defined as a form of communication with the Creator.
An active process of appealing to a higher spiritual power, specifically for health reasons (CAT) |
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| – asking God for things for oneself or others |
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| “Laughter is the best medicine |
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| – the therapeutic use of essential oils of plants in which the fragrance plays an important part |
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Therapeutic touch
Healing touch
Music therapy |
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| Includes herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and naturopathy. |
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| Consists of the consumption of specific types of diets or supplements, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs and other botanicals, and miscellaneous substances such as enzymes and fish oils for the purpose of preventing or treating illness. |
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Efficacy
Consistency
Safety
-suppliments can have a wide variety of ingredients, nurse has to be dilegent in insuring the saftely. |
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