INTRO
The array of health care approaches with a history of use or origins outside of mainstream medicine.
What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?
The study of botany and use of medicinal plants.
What is Herbalism?
What is a major limitation to access to conventional medicine that makes people look for alternative treatments?
What is Cost?
An alternative healing practice centered around the notion that vital energy flows throughout the body's nerves during a homeostatic state, and that this energy can be blocked by malignments of the vertebrae.
What is Chiropractic healing?
These institutions have started developing courses on complementary and alternative therapies.
What are Medical Schools?
A non-mainstream practice that is used together with with conventional medicine.
What is Complementary Medicine?
Full acceptance that none of the three elements can be treated without simultaneously addressing treatment of the other elements.
What is Interpenetration of Mind, Body, and Spirit?
Practitioners of alternative medicine tend to have a more ____ approach.
What is Holistic?
This type of alternative healing includes focused wishes, meditation, prayers, and ritual practices.
What is Spiritual Healing?
These groups include primary care physicians, specialists, and alternative healers.
What is the Medical Home?
A non-mainstream practice that is used instead of conventional medicine.
What is Alternative Medicine?
Encompassing the entire physical, mental, spiritual, and social makeup of the patient in the diagnostic and therapeutic process.
What is Holism?
This natural remedy is used to help reduce nausea associated with chemotherapy, induce appetite, and reduce muscle spasms and tremors in patients with multiple sclerosis.
What is Medical Marijuana?
An alternative healing practice in which needles are inserted into one or more points of the body to stimulate the flow of vital energy and correct imbalances.
What is Acupuncture?
One physician referred to these healers, who use needles in their practice, as "nonscientific weirdos."
Who are Acupuncturists?
Consists of practices that attempt to integrate mainstream and non-mainstream approaches in medicine.
What is Integrative Medicine?
Health viewed as being a positive physical and emotional state, and not just the absence of symptoms or clinically diagnosed disease.
What is High-Level Wellness?
Because there are a variety of alternative options, the patient has more _____
What are Choices?
An alternative healing practice involving the use of natural products such as herbs, vitamins, minerals, and probiotics.
What is Supplementation?
Unlike many others, this healing practice is believed to be incompatible with orthodox medicine.
What is Christian Science Healing?
Americans pay more visits to these than to physicians.
What are CAM healers?
A unique system of health care beliefs and practices that differ significantly from modern scientific medicine.
What is Curanderismo?
Which Virginia teenager refused chemotherapy and opted for an alternative approach to healing, subsequently having a law named after him?
This healing practice is grounded in the beliefs and practices of cultural groups.
What is Ethnic Folk Healing?
This culture uses scientific medicine to treat the symptoms of illness, but relies on traditional healing practices to treat the cause of illness.
Who are the Navajo?