Topics to Add When Creating an Alternate and Modern Medicine Web Directory

Alternate medicine finds its own place in the hearts and minds worldwide and has a separate following to back its existence. There are many subcategories that could be added to the modern and alternate medicine website directories. Although the list below is not exhaustive it is a good start. After looking at multiple directories in the web that just places everything into one big category "health related websites". I thought it's time to present some categories in this vibrant segment of the web; there are lot's of websites in this category which need a separate home in the directories. Even in the High PR and traffic rich directories finding the right websites gets tough by browsing the whole category. For your reference a single line definition obtained from wikipedia is placed under each category.

o Acupuncture - a therapeutic technique intended to promote health and well-being, which involves the insertion of needles into "acupuncture points" on the body by trained practitioners.

o Alexander technique - a study of freeing response that is taught by studying one's own mannerisms of posture.

o Apitherapy - is the medical use of honeybee products. This can include the use of honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, and bee venom, but most commonly refers to use of bee venom, called bee venom therapy (BVT).

o Applied Kinesiology - a form of diagnostic kinesiology that is used as a primary feedback mechanism to examine how a person's body is functioning.

o Aromatherapy - is the use of essential oils, fragrance oils, absolutes, carrier oils, and other fragrances from plants to affect someone's mood or health.

o Ayurveda - a more than 2,000 year old comprehensive system of medicine based on a holistic approach rooted in Vedic culture.

o Biofeedback - is the process of measuring and quantifying an aspect of a subject's physiology, analyzing the data, and then feeding back the information to the subject in a form that allows the subject to enact physiological change.

o Chiropractic - is a health discipline that seeks to prevent and treat health problems by using spinal adjustments in order to correct misalignments, or subluxations.

o Color therapy - use color and light to balance energy wherever our bodies are lacking, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental.

The other well known subcategories include the following:

Gemstone Therapy, Herbs, Holistic Health, Homeopathy, Huna, Hypnotherapy, Iridology, Macrobiotics, Magnetic therapy, Massage Therapy, Meditation, Mind-Body Medicine, Music Therapy, Natural Hygiene, Naturopathy, Orthomolecular Medicine, Polarity Therapy, Pranic Healing, Reflexology, Rolfing, Sensory Deprivation, Somatic Education, Therapeutic Humor, Trepanation, Yoga.

If you like to employ a good page rank directory for finding further categories here is one that contain links for Acupuncture, Alexander technique, Breathwork and many of the categories mentioned in this article ? networlddirectory.com. Some of the definitions in this article were obtained from wikipedia.org. Author does freelancing through the no fee free freelance website freelancefree.com.

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Alternative Medicine - Floatation Therapy

What is Floatation Therapy? Floatation Therapy is a form of alternate medicine and is essentially a method of sensory isolation. The technique was developed by Dr. John C. Lilly, an American psychoanalyst and neuro-physiologist, who developed this technique and subsequently the sensory isolation tank (1954) based on his research on the reaction of human beings to sensory deprivation. What he found, contrary to his expectations that the brain would go into deep sleep, was that it became more active and its problem solving abilities and imaginative power increased.

Floating and swimming are age old practices. The process of floatation therapy essentially places the body into a state of deep relaxation. Dr. Lilly found that his subjects reached a level of relaxation that would take years to attain using the known classical meditation practices. The process of floatation therapy has an aura of mystery surrounding it. The sight of people floating in tanks of water may look like a scene in a science fiction film.

The process of bringing a person into a deep state of relaxation in floatation therapy usually takes place in a specially manufactured tank of water dissolved with minerals and salts so as to make the body float. Usually we experience conflict and stress in our daily routines and habitual activity. These patterns of habitual activity become one with our energy and neurotic depriving actions. Some people resort to smoking, alcohol and drugs to relieve themselves of these everyday tensions only to find themselves in another bind.

But how exactly does Floatation Therapy work? This, unfortunately, is not clearly known. The way it reduces stress is what is known. When a person lies in a tank for nearly two hours doing nothing, without any physical stimulation at all, then the body has nothing to react to. As such, the levels of stress hormones such as adrenaline or epinephrine as well as cortisol drops, providing deep relaxation.

In the case of muscle pain reduction, the deep relaxation releases endorphins that arrest the pain from reaching the conscious, there is a relaxation of the muscles and healing is much more faster. People suffering from arthritis have found their suffering alleviated.

Floatation Therapy also aids people suffering from psychological problems. Specifically those suffering from addictive and obsessive behavior. This is because most of these problems are stress related and once the stress is removed the psychological problems disappear. One of the developments related to psychotherapy is aptly named REST (Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique).This form of therapy was developed in the late 1970s. There are two different methods to this therapy. One is known as the Wet Therapy and the other the Dry Therapy. Obviously, in the second method, the floater is separated from the water by a 15 mm polymer membrane.

One exciting aspect of this therapy is the prospect it holds for increasing skills and performance. There is evidence to show that this technique enhances scientific creativity, sports and artistic performance.

Certain precautions have to be taken while undergoing Floatation Therapy. The most important one is that Floatation Therapy should not be undergone without the direct supervision of a trained practitioner. People with psychosis and those suffering from claustrophobia (the fear of confined spaces) should avoid this therapy.

Floatation Therapy is a powerful inducer of relaxation. Some of the disorders that have been alleviated include chronic pain, anxiety disorders, headache, muscle tension, hypertension, psycho-physiological and even premenstrual syndrome (PMS).

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