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Biologically based therapies is the precise name of a NCCIH classification for alternative treatments that use substances found in nature, such as: botanicals; animal-derived extracts; vitamins; minerals; fatty acids; amino acids; proteins; prebiotics and probiotics; whole diets; functional foods.
Chelation therapy; Chinese food therapy; Chinese herbology; Chinese martial arts; Chinese medicine; Chinese pulse diagnosis; Chakra; Chiropractic; Chromotherapy (color therapy, colorpuncture) Cinema therapy; Coding (therapy) Coin rubbing; Colloidal silver therapy; Colon cleansing; Conversion therapy; Colon hydrotherapy (Enema) Craniosacral ...
Biofield therapies are intended to influence energy fields that are purported to surround and penetrate the body. The existence of such energy fields have been disproven. Bioelectromagnetic-based therapies use verifiable electromagnetic fields, such as pulsed fields, alternating-current, or direct-current fields in a non-scientific manner.
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is a United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It was created in 1991 as the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM), and renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) before receiving its current name in 2014. [1]
Cognitive behavioral therapy is defined by the NCCIH as a mind-body intervention because it utilizes the mind's capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms, but also there is sufficient scientific evidence and mainstream application for it to fall outside the purview of complementary and alternative medicine.
Biological psychiatry or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system.It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as neuroscience, psychopharmacology, biochemistry, genetics, epigenetics and physiology to investigate the biological bases of behavior and psychopathology.
Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) [1] is a branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice. Biomedicine stresses standardized, evidence-based treatment validated through biological research, with treatment administered via formally ...
In alternative medicine, bodywork is any therapeutic or personal development technique that involves working with the human body in a form involving manipulative therapy, breath work, or energy medicine.