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  Holistic health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holistic health is a term used by alternative medicine advocates to describe medical care that views physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life as closely interconnected and balanced.
Advocates of the holistic health philosophy typically seek or use a wide variety of alternative practices, the most common of which include acupuncture, ayurveda, Siddha, chiropractic, naturopathy, yoga, aromatherapy, homeopathy, massage, Tai Chi, Chinese herbology, Medical cannabis, medicinal herbs, and Prolotherapy.
Advocates of alternative medicine often employ the use of the holistic health philosophy to claim that conventional medicine does not address the needs of the patient as a whole.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holistic_health   (255 words)

  
 ACS :: Holistic Medicine
Holistic medicine focuses on how the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual elements of the body are interconnected to maintain wellness (holistic health).
In mainstream medicine, a holistic approach generally means a more inclusive approach to a person’s health, one that includes the patient’s social and cultural situation as well as her or his illness.
Holistic medicine approaches health and disease from several angles and suggests that a person should not only treat the illness but his or her whole self to reach a higher level of wellness.
www.cancer.org /docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Holistic_Medicine.asp   (1274 words)

  
 Holistic Health at Holistic Junction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Holistic Health involves natural treatment options like holistic health nutrition, herbology, environmental medicine, energy work, mind-body medicine, anatomy, and many other holistic health practices.
Holistic health allows an individual to be treated naturally and establishes a positive balance between body, mind and spirit.
Holistic health also means taking the recommended vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements to make our bodies function more effectively.
www.holisticjunction.com /categories/HAD/holistic-health.html   (306 words)

  
 HOLISTIC is an adjective
With Holistic Health people accept responsibility for their own level of well-being, and everyday choices are used to take charge of one's own health.
The Holistic Health lifestyle is regaining popularity each year, as the holistic principles offer practical options to meet the growing desire for enjoying a high level of vitality and well-being.
Holistic Health is based on the law of nature that a whole is made up of interdependent parts.
www.shape.org /holistichealth.html   (1975 words)

  
 Holistic Health Class Descriptions
Health and social issues relevant to young adults and throughout the life cycle will be examined.
Students will be allowed to explore their individual interests in a course project in which they examine the research on a disease process from a holistic perspective and explore holistic techniques that can be utilized as part of a complementary health care approach.
This course is designed to help students better understand the dynamics of community and the potential for holistic growth and health through the investment of self in a common and purposeful experience with others.
www.wmich.edu /~holistic/HolisticHealthClasses.html   (1914 words)

  
 Holistic Health
The goal of holistic medicine is to facilitate the body’s natural healing processes through complementary or alternative therapies.
Holistic practitioners often view themselves as teachers who educate, empower, and motivate their patients or clients to lead healthier lives, emphasizing prevention as the best cure.
Holistic medicine is often used in conjunction with conventional medicine.
www.evitamins.com /holisticindex.asp   (330 words)

  
 Quick Facts Center - Health
Studies show that with the rapidly changing health care system, more people are seeking preventative health are programs or Holistic health and medicine.
Holistic health is a state of wellness and vitality that brings physical, mental and spiritual harmony to oneself.
Holistic medicine is a system of care that treats the whole person with an emphasis on preventive care.
www.mainetoday.com /quickfacts/health-holistichealth.shtml   (987 words)

  
 The Holistic Health Phreak
Holistic health clients would 'come to their senses' and reject holistic remedies, and resume with Western medical treatments.
She knows every holistic and Western medicine and process that is being used on this patient and when, and she understands each and every interaction between therapy, often consulting a computer database of interaction results.
If holistic health truly takes over the country, and its principles are intact as it does, it is possible that this will be a first step to a gift economy in health, where people exchange health services and advice with no expectation of a direct return.
radio.weblogs.com /0123658/2003/06/13.html   (1919 words)

  
 Holistic Health Tools and alternative products for holistic health
Educational holistic health articles include Fall Health Tips, Facts about Detoxification, facts about indoor air quality and Importance of good water, Skin care problems and solutions for all ages.
Health Education is a part of learning these holistic health principles and applying them to your everyday life.
Holistic Health is harmony and balance within all aspects of self - body, mind, spirit and emotions.
www.holistichealthtools.com   (1158 words)

  
 Holistic Health Solutions and Alternative Healing Information
Learn about safe and effective forms of holistic healing such as Naturopathics, Acupuncture, and Homeopathy plus locate homeopathic herbal remedies and nutritional supplements for many well known health conditions based on holistic health solutions.
Read nutrition health articles on the latest research offering natural health solutions for current health alerts, illnesses, and diseases of our times.
Holistic weight loss support with natural and effective weight loss programs, ebooks, and articles to help you lose weight and keep it off.
www.healthynewage.com   (1496 words)

  
 Welcome to Harmonia Health. We are Holistic health practitioners helping you achieve natural wellness of the body, mind ...
We are Holistic health practitioners helping you achieve natural wellness of the body, mind and spirit via the internet, phone and in Washington, D.C. **Reiki Level 1 Training on Feb. 18 and March 31, 2007.
We are holistic health practitioners with a vision to help you achieve natural wellness of the body, mind and spirit.
Disclaimer: Although holistic health practices are often very successful in promoting healing and wellness, they may not be sufficient intervention for some health conditions or complaints.
harmoniahealth.com   (353 words)

  
 Holistic Health
To be eligible to receive the Holistic Health Recognition of Achievement (R.O.A.), students must successfully complete four core subjects and three electives for a total of seven subjects.
It is increasingly clear that optimum health can be attained only when it is approached with an understanding of the whole person in all of its aspects, that is with consideration for the body, the mind, the emotions and the spirit.
The Holistic Health Recognition of Achievement Program is designed for those interested in the Holistic health field (fitness, nursing, wellness, medicine, etc.) as an enhancement to their existing careers, and for those interested in exploring career options.
www.senecac.on.ca /parttime/pip-holistic_health.html   (580 words)

  
 Holistic Health or Healing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
To doctors or healers, the term holistic health refers to using some form of natural therapy that does not include conventional medicine.
A Naturopathic medical school trains students in the art and science of Naturopathic Medicine, a holistic medicine approach where, in addition to the basic medical sciences, doctors are trained in holistic therapy and holistic health including: therapeutic nutrition, botanical medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, homeopathy and mind-body medicine.
The curriculum at Southwest College is one of the strongest in holistic healing and holistic medicine among the Naturopathic medical schools.
www.scnm.edu /holistic_health.html   (282 words)

  
 HOLISTIC HEALTH PRACTITIONER HOME-STUDY PROGRAM
A Holistic Health Practitioner is someone who is an expert in various aspects of holistic health and is able to offer clients a wide array of natural treatment options.
A Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) is a person trained in various areas of holistic healing, including Herbal Medicine, Holistic Nutrition, Body-Mind Medicine, etc. An HHP should possess a holistic philosophy, treat the whole person rather than the disease and consider nutritional needs as well as emotional state of the client.
Health and wellness is definitely based on your diet, as is the prevention of disease.
www.gcnm.com /holistic-health-practitioner-program.html   (3712 words)

  
 Holistic Health
Seeing health as the totality of a person’s existence is the holistic view of health.
By creating a holistic residential environment we hope to create a closely-knit group that will support each other and extend their own ideas of holistic living.
The focus of our program will be to improve upon the individual’s quality of health and happiness and also, the Holistic Health and Wellness Program is designed in order to aid its participants in the exploration of holistic studies.
www.uvm.edu /llcenter/programs/0506/holistic.htm   (960 words)

  
 What Is Holistic Medicine?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Holistic Medicine is defined by the Canadian Holistic Medical Association as follows.
Holistic medicine is a system of health care which fosters a cooperative relationship among all those involved, leading towards optimal attainment of the physical, mental emotional, social and spiritual aspects of health.
Holistic medicine focuses on education and responsibility for personal efforts to achieve balance and well being.
www.holisticmed.com /whatis.html   (462 words)

  
 Health Insurance Off the Grid
The title of this book is "Health Insurance Off the Grid." People who consider themselves "off the grid" usually have created their own solutions to problems that the rest of us look to our governments and utilities to solve.
It is a way to use health insurance that removes you from the complexities and "control dramas" of insurance without losing the best aspects of having coverage.
"Health insurance off the grid" means that I've created a complete healthcare system for a person or a family that removes many of the hassles of HMOs, denied coverage and Western medicine as the only option.
www.healthoffthegrid.com   (2066 words)

  
 Share Guide holistic health magazine and alternative medicine directory
The focus of this holistic website is health and wellness, education, self-help, spirituality, and environmental awareness.
articles and interviews on such holistic health themes as alternative medicine, holistic education, travel and retreats, yoga, counseling and therapy, massage and bodywork, nutrition, spirituality, the environment, meditation, natural products, weight loss solutions, and more.
Share Guide's holistic health directory has hundreds of listings of doctors and holistic health pracitioners for you to browse, organized alphabetically by category.
www.shareguide.com   (250 words)

  
 Soil and Health Library
The nutritional qualites of food and consequently the health of the animals and humans eating that food are determined by soil fertility.
This whole activity of "health" care is not a productive use of human attention, but in reality constitutes enormous waste, pain, and suffering, suffering whose main source, poor nutrition, is almost entirely unappreciated.
Dr. Isabelle Moser, who spent 25 years conducting a clinical practice using holistic approaches, suggested in private conversations that what she termed the "constitution" of her older patients was typically much stronger than the constitution of her younger ones.
www.soilandhealth.org   (2475 words)

  
 Holistic Health Centre
Reflexology is a Holistic Healing technique, holistic is derived from the Greek word holos meaning whole, and thus reflexology treats the whole person Body, Mind and Soul.
Reflexology operates on specific pressure techniques which work on specific reflexes on the feet that relate to different organs and body parts and by stimulating these reflexes we start normalising the energy flow through this reflex thus placing it into homeostasis- a state of equilibrium or balance, this with reflexology is normally relaxation.
As a holistic therapy, we aim to treat the body as a whole and endeavour to get down to the root of the disease or illness.
www.holistichealth.co.za   (2345 words)

  
 Shirley's Wellness Cafe - Natural Cures - Holistic Health for People and Animals
Learn to achieve natural health for you, your family and your pets with alternative/holistic/complimentary/integrative and preventative methods of healing: homeopathy, herbs, urine therapy, hydrotherapy, raw foods and juices, therapeutic fasts, healing clays, sunlight, thalassotherapy (seawater), nutrition, naturopathy, biomagnetics healing, aromatherapy, reiki healing, flower essences and more.
Health is a state of optimal well-being." Optimal well-being is a concept of health that goes beyond the curing of illness to one of achieving wellness.
The two biggest factors in our pets' population health decline over these generations has been the severe overuse of multiple vaccines and nutrient poor and toxin filled commercial pet foods.
www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com   (2148 words)

  
 Holistic Health
The treatment sessions are holistic in nature, encompassing your whole essence — body, mind, and spirit.
The holistic approach emphasizes cooperation with the body’s innate ability to heal itself.
Health and well-being are strongly influenced by our emotions and the function and alignment of energy centers, also referred to as Chakras or Psychoneuroemotional (PNE) Centers.
www.holessence.com /index.html   (971 words)

  
 Natural Therapies, CFS, and Body Typing
As chronic diseases spiral out of control and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare claim we are becoming healthier and living longer, the Australian government is looking for ways to incorporate more traditional teachings of alternative or natural medicine within the framework of modern medicine.
It is this primary purpose, and not my allegiance to one or more specific forms of health care, which has determined the stance I have taken on various health related issues.
Although toxic and invasive therapies may have their place for the treatment of life threatening disease, in my opinion they have no place as a first choice for the treatment of non acute or chronic disease.
www.holistichealthtopics.com /HMG/default.html   (1340 words)

  
 Holistic Bulletin - Alternative Health and Spiritual News
British dog owners are shunning traditional medicine and instead turning to alternative therapies to keep their pet in good mental and physical health.
Kevala.com, the holistic therapy college that trains students all over the world via home study, have announced a first in aromatherapy training.
Britain's Prince Charles Tuesday insisted that alternative medicine has a critical role to play in the health of future generations, and urged governments to adopt a more integrated approach to medicine using acupuncture and herbal remedies.
www.holisticbulletin.com   (1073 words)

  
 Holistic Health
When you take the whole-person approach to health and are aware of how you and your environment are interconnected, this is holistic health.
Georgian Court University is the only regionally accredited university in New Jersey that offers a master’s degree in holistic health studies.
Eastern and Western approaches are integrated to create well-balanced courses that teach students to communicate and educate others about health and wellness.
www.georgian.edu /holistic/index.html   (133 words)

  
 Dogs and Cats: Holistic Animal veterinary and optimum pet nutrition (also ferrets and other animals) part 1 of 4
Breeders who have changed their animal's diets and used alternative methods of health care and vaccination have observed dramatic health improvement in the young and adult alike, including larger litters and less complication of prenancies and birth such as premature birth, smaller litters, C-sections, tiny or weak puppies; sick pups, and puppy mortality.
We have told them of the huge health improvements that we have seen in our own pets, since changing them to a raw meaty bone diet, and explained that this is seen around the world by other dog, cat and ferret owners when they change their pets to a natural diet.
Detoxification for Optimum Health: Chemicals and toxins are the primary cause of disease and obesity
www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com /animals.htm   (10168 words)

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