Listing of alternative therapies

The conventional medicine or alopátic don't always propose definitive solutions to all the problems of health that the human being outlines. It is for this reason that new forms have arisen of to alleviate the ailments so much physics as mental that have been low circunscriptas the name of "alternative therapies." Most portions of the base that to recover the physical well-being it is necessary to recover the psychic and emotional balance before, in the understanding that body and mind are an all indisociable. Some therapies are part of the art of to cure developed by millennial towns, while others associate oriental philosophies with exercises and massages that improve the physical and mental control. In fact they don't cure everything, but they offer a very wide spectrum of possibilities that you/they allow us to reach the well-being. It would be also good to consider them as a necessary complement and although the list is long, we can rescue something good of each one.

ACUPUNCTURE Used by the Chinese medicine, it portions of the concept that all that exists in the universe is composed of two opposed poles that are supplemented. The illness apararecepor a decompensation in the two poles of the body. The acupuncture consists on introducing needles in certain points that, when being stimulated, they modulate the step of the energy - increasing or diminishing its flow - to achieve the harmony among positive and negative forces (the yin and yang) and to recover the health. Their effectiveness like analgesic it could be related with the liberation of some substances that liberates our organism known as endorphins. He/she obtains results against the rheumatism, the anxiety, the insomnia, the hypotension and the hypertension. It doesn't overcome to the medicine alopática in the land of the infectious illnesses.

AROMATERAPY It is based on the application of oils and essential oils of aromatic plants and spices with physical, mental and emotional healing effects. He/she works with more than eighty essences that are used as topics, inhalations or bathrooms.

CINESIOLOGY Method of diagnostic through the muscles. With him it is sought to discover the
imbalances in the energy distribution.

CROMOTERAPY This therapy is based on the employment of colors to produce certain psychological and chemical answers, and starting from there to determine the patient's diagnosis.

FITOTERAPY Looks for to reestablish the health through vegetable remedies (extracted of roots, leaves, shafts, flowers, seeds and fruits). It considers that there is a botanical species able to cure each ailment. It can be useful for digestive, pancreatic, lung problems, of skin, circulatory and nervous. The preparations should waste away for medical prescription to avoid toxicity risks.

FLOWERS DE BACH, CALIFORNIAN DE AND OTHERS Leaving of the principles outlined by the homeopathy, each one of these schools contains certain species of wild plants with those that make their preparations. These remedies alleviate the negative mental states that can originate illnesses.

HYDROTHERAPY Consists on the therapeutic use of the water and its objectives are to dissolve tensions, to eliminate toxins and revigorizar. It uses frictions, compresses, immersion bathrooms, located lavajes. They calm down, they relax, they activate the circulation, they decongest and desintoxican.

HOMEOPATHY Treats the patient with small dose of substances that - if they will be applied in healthy people and in more quantities - they would cause similar symptoms to those that it seeks to cure. Their creator, Samuel Hahnemann, was based on the principle by the one which "the similar cure to the similar thing" and in that "the effect of a remedy is inversely proportional to its quantity." This way, substances coming from the Kingdom vegetable, mineral and animal are diluted in infinitesimal dose and transformed into effective medications, without secondary actions. The diagnosis doesn't lose of view that the body is part of an everything (that an interdependence exists among the physical one, the temperament, the affections, the lifestyle and the patient's profession) and it tries to reestablish the general balance.

IRIDOLOGY Diagnostic of illnesses based on the observation of the iris by means of an increase lens, because each person has her own structure or iris design. Had practiced more than for ten centuries by the Chinese doctors, it can be useful for the precocious detection of illnesses.

MASSAGE AYURVÉDICO Technique related with the Indian medicine that, based on the man's global vision, it spreads to heal body and spirit. The massage doesn't cure, but it strengthens the body and it returns him the necessary positive energy for the good form physics and the mental well-being. It reactivates the energy flows along the nadis (comparable with the meridians of those that he/she speaks the acupuncture) marked by some points (murmas) and it annuls the possible blockades.

METAMORPHIC MASSAGE is based on the autocuración and in that the body possesses a vital impulse that contributes force and health to the organism. It seeks to reactivate that energy, to act on the memory of the cells, going back to the prenatal life by means of the massage of feet, hands and head, related with the embryonic stage.

MEDICINE ANTHROPOSÓFIC Sustains that if the medicine is only centered in the body, he/she moves away from the human sphere, and that all affection is an imbalance of the calls polar functions of the organism. The anabolizante (metabolic, nutritional and reproductive processes) it opposes himself to the catabolizante (nervous system and the five senses); the good health depends on the correct adaptation between the anabolic rhythm and the catabolic one. As the homeopathy, it is been worth of energized remedies that they potentialize the energy, but it also tosses hand to massages, bathrooms, injections and diets.

MUSICTERAPY Uses the music like road of expression of feelings and emotions. It usually uses in mental and emotional alterations and in children discapacitados.

NATUROPATY Prescribes native substances and it focuses the physical and psychological disturbances that perturb the individual. It proposes changes in the feeding, use of plants, relaxation exercises, massages or thermal bathrooms. It considers that the fast is excellent for desintoxicar the organism. It discards the refined, fatty ingesta of products and drinks stimulants. it is the nearest to the medicine traditional, because many fármacos components they are not more than synthesis of present active principles in some plants.

OSTEOPATHY by means of manipulations more or less marked of articulations, muscles and viscera, it can restore the arterial, veined and lymphatic circulation, as well as the transmission of the nervous reflections, and to make the disorders taken place by their alteration to disappear.

QUIROPRAXY Treatment manuel for the disorders of the apparatus musculoesquelético. It improves the flexibility of the vertebral articulations and of the muscles, even when it cannot cure the degenerative process that originates the problem.

REFLEXOLOGY Massages of feet and hands by means of which are illnesses. It portions of the base that in them they are reflected all the organs and vital functions, for that reason through the stimulation of the points that there are (mainly in the plant of the feet) it is possible to improve the physical well-being.

REIKI Japanese Method that balances the corporal energy, so much in the physical plane as in the mental, emotional and spiritual. It is based on activations through the hands that, almost without playing the patient, they amplify the ki or vital energy (I laughed it indicates the energy that flows in all that is alive). It alleviates pains of rheumatism and arthritis, and it achieves a state of deep relaxation.

SHIATSU Developed in Japan, it combines Chinese medicine with western techniques as the quiropraxia and the osteopathy. Shiatsu means pressure with the fingers, but tambiéns and he/she carries out with the elbows and the knees. The hands detect the blockade points that cause illness. It looks for that the energy flows correctly for the meridians and it travels its channels in all its longitude. It cures headaches and back, digestive and nervous problems.

SOFROLOGY Combined of physical and psychic exercises that stimulate the heart rhythm, that of an organ or the entirety of the vital functions. With her you can reach certain state of anesthesia. It is on the way a technique to half between the hypnosis and the relaxation.

THAI-CHI AND CHI-KONG Constitutes the two faces of kind of an energy gymnastics that uses the vital force or chi in which the Chinese medicine is based. The chi-kong it reactivates that energy, it unblocks points of tension to return the force and the health. It is achieved with static exercises, relaxation and breathing. The Thai-chi it combines the grace with the force in inherited movements of old combat techniques, together to breathing exercises and concentration that prevent the anguish and the depression.

TALHASSOTERAPY The term "talhassa" it comes from the Greek, it means sea, and therapy, it cures. Although the treatments with seawater from the antiquity have had the approval of the doctors, it is from half-filled of the XIX century in the Britain when this is developed with scientific character being considered a practice that I lower a strict medical supervision at the present time it is associated to the physical form, prevention and sanación of pathologies and, I not eat, to the pleasure. To use the denomination Talasoterapia they are indispensable three factors: the saline water of the sea, the marine air and the climate in their marine slope.

YOGA Indian integral System to achieve a deep relaxation, tranquility and concentration together to a bigger flexibility and vigor physiques. It proposes some six hundred postures or asanas that, among other functions, they activate muscles that rarely move and they cause natural massages, they elongate areas that habitually they are contracted and they relax muscles and tensed tendons.

OCULAR YOGA Technical created in the XX century by the American William Bats, for the one who the eyes are surrounded of grooved muscles that you/they can help actively to improve the vision. It consists on subjecting the view to some exercises and luminous stimuli, and deep breathing to allow a better irrigation and oxygenation of the eyes.