Health Alternative Medicine

Excluding regular medicine, the various types of natural healing includes all types of methods that contribute essentially to good health.

It is worth mentioning that many people are growing more interested in Natural healing, considering that in spite of the present economic recession, a government report which was made public by the American Academy of Family Physicians in late 2009, has shown that American adults are spending almost $34 billion a year on complementary and alternative medicine, with $4.1 billion of this being spent on yoga, tai chi and qigong classes alone.

So if you are interested in Natural Healing methods, you are not alone.!

Now, the common and more popular ones are:

-Chiropraction

-Reflexology

-Hypnotherapy,

-Reiki,

-Ayurveda,

-Massage

And this is naming just a few.

Still, natural healing can be classified into five major domains of practice: alternative medical systems, mind-body techniques, biologically based therapies, body-based therapies, and energy therapies and under each category, one will be able to find some common natural healing methods as indicated.

*Alternative Medical Systems:

-Traditional Chinese Medicine

-Ayurveda

-Homeopathy

-Naturopathy

Mind-Body Techniques

-Meditation

-Relaxation Techniques

-Guided Imagery

-Hypnotherapy

-Biofeedback

Biologically Based Therapies

-Herbal Medicine

-Orthomolecular Medicine

Body-Based Therapies

-Chiropractic

-Massage Therapy

-Rolfing

-Reflexology

-Postural Reeducation

Energy Therapies

-Bioelectromagnetic-based Therapies

-Reiki

-Therapeutic Touch

So there you have it, the various forms of popular natural healing methods categorized under their parent categories.

At this point, it is safe to say that the plethora of choices does depict that indeed all of these methods are quite popular and documented statistics are showing that they are all indeed more or less effective, so suffice it to say one may be missing out by not looking into the several options.

Here’s to health

Aje

Foras Aje is an independent researcher and author of Fitness: Inside and out, a book on improving physical and mental health naturally. For more information on natural health,news and breakthroughs visit his site at http://www.bodyhealthsoul.com/
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