Mind Body Therapies
This therapy uses movement, breathing, and meditation to cultivate life energy or 'qi.'
Answer: What is Qi Gong?
A profession that focuses on the relationship between the body’s structure—mainly the spine—and its functioning?
Answer: What is chiropractic medicine?
A Chinese practice using fine needles to stimulate energy points.
Answer: What is Acupuncture?
This herb used by patients for anxiety, has been linked to serious liver damage
Answer: What is kava?
A nursing approach that treats the mind, body, and spirit as interconnected.
Answer: What is Holistic Nursing?
This therapy uses music to improve physical, mental, and emotional health.
Answer: What is Music Therapy?
The manipulation of tissue to relax clumps of knotted muscle fiber, increase circulation, and release patterns of chronic tension?
Answer: What is massage?
A healing tradition that involves connecting with spirit guides or ancestors.
Answer: What is Shamanism?
This herbal remedy is used by people to improve memory, affects platelet function and should not be used concurrently with other antiplatelet drugs and anticoagulants.
Answer: What is Ginkgo biloba?
These physical conditions are affected by all components of an individual, including their body, mind and spirit.
Answer: What is health and illness?
A therapy that uses sound frequencies or vibrations to promote relaxation and healing
Answer: What is Sound Healing?
A technique to visualize a particular outcome or scenario with the goal of mentally changing one’s physical reality.
Answer: What is guided imagery?
An Indian system emphasizing balance through diet, lifestyle, and herbs.
Answer: What is Ayurveda?
The active psychoactive compound in marijuana and is what is tested for in a urine drug screen.
Answer: What is THC?
This approach has focused on reductionism, reducing the human body to isolated parts rather than a unified whole, and in which treatment of health conditions focus on an individual organ or system rather than the whole being
Answer: What is the conventional scientific approach?
This mindfulness practice helps reduce anxiety and lower blood pressure.
Answer: What is Meditation?
This releases tension in the body through exercises such as controlled breathing.
Answer: What is relaxation?
A mind and body practice with historical origins in ancient Indian philosophy?
Answer: What is yoga?
Nurses must remain aware of the current legal status and be able to answer patients’ questions and provide patients accurate information related to their safety and effectiveness.
What are cannabis products?
Emphasis is on health. Healing is done by the patient; care is individualized.
Answer: What is complementary or integrative health?
This therapy involves placing a practitioner’s hands over the energy fields of the patient’s body to increase energy flow and restore balance.
Answer: What is Reiki?
Focusing the mind on something specific (such as breathing or repeating a word or phrase) to quiet it.
Answer: What is meditation?
A martial arts, mind–body practice that likely developed from qi gong.
Answer: What is Tai Chi?
Therapeutic uses include antiemetic effects in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, chronic pain in adults, multiple sclerosis–related spasticity, and reduction of seizure frequency associated with severe epilepsy.
Answer: What is for cannabis or cannabinoids?
In this approach, health is the absence of disease.
Answer: What is allopathic medicine?