Alternative healing

Alternative healing methods include, but are not limited to, the methods mentioned below:

• Acupuncture
• Acupressure
• Alexander Technique
• Aromatherapy
• Auriculotherapy
• Bach Flower Therapy
• Blood letting
• Traditional Chinese medicine
• Craniosacral Therapy
• Dermovision: This technique claims to be able to teach those who have lost their eyesight to see with their skin.
• Flower Essence Therapy
• Healing touch
• Herbal therapy
• Homeopathy
• Hypnosis
• Magnetic healing
• Naturopathic medicine
• Pranic healing
• Qigong
• Quantum touch
• Rebirthing
• Reflexology
• Regressions
• Reiki
• Yoga

These techniques have little or nothing in common other than that they are not generally included in standard contemporary medicine. Even this, however, is a generalization: many modern drugs, including digitalis and morphine, are derived from herbal sources, or are synthetic versions of the active ingredients in herbs.

Most alternative methods have not undergone double-blind clinical trials: in some cases, their practitioners and supporters claim that these trials are inappropriate.

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