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t. e. Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness. Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical trials, producing ...
Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific [ 1 ] system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths or homeopathic physicians, [ 2 ] believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this ...
Facebook claims that 'gargling salt water, drinking hot liquids like tea and avoiding ice cream can stop the transmission of COVID-19' have been criticized by health professionals. [140] Eating ice cream and frozen foods will neither cure nor cause COVID-19, as long as they are hygienically prepared. [43]
Detoxification. Detoxification (often shortened to detox and sometimes called body cleansing) is a type of alternative-medicine treatment which aims to rid the body of unspecified "toxins" – substances that proponents claim accumulate in the body over time and have undesirable short-term or long-term effects on individual health.
Barbara O'Neill (born 28 July 1953 [1]) is an Australian alternative health care promoter who advertises unsupported health practices described as misinformation and a risk to health and safety by the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission. [2][3][1] She does not have any recognised qualifications and did not finish nursing training ...
Applied kinesiology (AK) is a pseudoscience-based technique [1] in alternative medicine claimed to be able to diagnose illness or choose treatment by testing muscles for strength and weakness. [ 2 ] According to their guidelines on allergy diagnostic testing, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology stated there is "no evidence of ...
Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. [1] A wide array of practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing" are employed by its practitioners, who are known as naturopaths. Difficult to generalize, these treatments range from the pseudoscientific and thoroughly discredited, like ...
Alternative medicine. Rolfing (/ ˈrɔːlfɪŋ, ˈrɒl -/) [1] is a form of alternative medicine originally developed by Ida Rolf (1896–1979) as Structural Integration. [2][3] Rolfing is marketed with unproven claims of various health benefits, [4][5] is recognized as pseudoscience [6] and has been characterized as quackery. [7][4] It is ...