Ancient Hindu discipline for harmonizing the body, mind and spirit.
What is Yoga?
100
Very fine needles are used to stimulate certain points on the body along lines called meridians to increase or disperse the flow of energy.
What is acupuncture?
100
A safe herb for nausea and vomiting?
What is Ginger?
100
involves focusing attention on a single repetitive stimulus.
What is meditation?
100
Used by more than 70% of the worlds population
What is phytotherapy?
200
Uses oils from plants that are either absorbed through the skin during massage or inhaled.
What is Aromatherapy?
200
Flow of energy
What is QI?
200
Used for minor burns and wound healing?
What is Aloe?
200
Proven to be helpful as a complementary treatment and nurses should be careful how they use this as some patients could interpret it as being disrespectful
What is Humor?
200
contains plant material as their active ingredients
What is herbal?
300
Uses a visual stimulus to produce a particular physiologic change that can decrease stress or promote healing.
What is imagery?
300
Combines many healing practices and prevalent through out Latin America.
What is Folk Medicine?
300
May be fatal in Children
What is Pokeroot?
300
Used to alter behavior, retrieve memories and induce anesthesia, and can also be used to loss weight and stop smoking.
What is Hypnotherapy?
300
maybe combined with a body-based therapy
What is aromatherapy?
400
Therapies that are used along with medical therapies to promote health.
What is complementary therapy?
400
Basis is the use of natural means to promote health.
What is Naturopathic Medicine?
400
Helps with mild depression, viral infections, wound healing
What is St. John's Wort?
400
Can be affective in healing for some people by offering this to a higher power and help reduce stress and may arrest disease.
What is Prayer?
400
What women rely on for hormone changes
What is Black cohosh?
500
Treatment by use of plants.
What is phytotherapy?
500
Focus in restoring and strengthening the person's body, mind, and spirit.
What is Ayurveda?
500
A Drug that has banned by FDA for weight loss, that is unsafe for people with hypertension, and diabetes etc.
What is Ephedra?
500
Internal Activity that measured with electrodes and shown and either visual on a screen or as a sound giving the patient and the practitioner feedback about the internal workings of the body.
What is Biofeedback?
500
Men take this to shrink the hypertrophy of prostate gland