5,000-year-old system of holistic and preventive medicine from India that treats illness as an imbalance or stress in the awareness of the individual, along with an imbalance of the doshas. The ayurvedic tradition employs diagnostic procedures such as reading the pulse and observing the tongue. Nutrition counseling, yoga, massage, herbal medicine, meditation, and other modalities are used to treat a broad spectrum of ailments in reaching a balanced state of inner harmony, health, and natural well-being.
In Ayurvedic medicine, doshas are three basic physiological principles that interact to create health; an imbalance leads to disease.
Bioenergetics
A method of studying and understanding the human personality in terms of the body and its energetic processes. The body and mind are functionally identical and repressed emotions affect the body and mind by creating chronic muscular tension and diminishing energy.
Detoxification
The process where toxins and the build‑up of wastes are eliminated from the body, often accomplished with adhering to specific diets, bowel cleansing, vitamin/mineral therapy, herbal medicine and at times fasting. The body will be able to absorb and assimilate nutrients much more efficiently after a detoxification.
Diet Modification
Alterations and adjustments to food consumed, for maximum nutrient delivery and health. All modifications are unique to each individuals needs.
Herbal Medicine/Plant Based Medicine
The earliest known form of medicine. It is the study or use of medicinal herbs to prevent and treat diseases and ailments or to promote health and healing.
Homeopathic Medicine
Derived from the Greek word homoios meaning similar and pathos meaning suffering, homoeopathy is an alternative medical system that treats the symptoms of a disease with minute doses of a natural substance or remedy. In larger doses, the remedy would produce the same symptoms as the disease or disorder that is being treated.
Iridology
A diagnostic technique which uses the markings and patterns of the irises of the eyes to determine the condition of various systems or organs of the body. Iridology is the science/art of reading the state of a person's health from examination of the iris.
"Under magnification the eyes reveal in minute detail
the state of the tissues throughout the body - inflammation, toxicity, acidity,
degeneration, spasm, lymphatic congestion, hardening of the arteries, the
heart, the liver, gall bladder, kidneys, pancreas, spleen, thyroid gland,
lungs and bronchials; they are all recorded in the iris.
Although the irises only show the state of the tissues inside the body, they
record changes in the tissue long before clinical symptoms develop.
Modern medicine is mostly concerned with pathology or medically-named diseases,
whereas the iris does not point to or identify a 'disease' as such. Degenerative
disease including cancer, diabetes and pneumonia are not confirmed in the
iris; however toxicity and congestion of lymph tissue, weak tissue in the
pancreas, and inflammation of the lungs and bronchials will be apparent.
The iris reflects only the state and condition of the body tissue, and from
this a remedial treatment program can be designed to deal with all the body
systems rather than treating the 'disease' in isolation.
The eyes and brain are closely related. In the embryo the eye starts out
as part of the brain. The iris is an extension of the brain, being endowed
with hundreds of thousands of nerve endings, microscopic blood vessels, muscles
and connective tissue. The markings and colours in the iris change as the
condition of the body tissue changes.
There is a terribly intricate connection between the eye and the brain via
the nervous system. the eye and iris both change in form with changes in
our body chemistry.
Through the eyes we are also given a glimpse of the state of a person's mind,
for the iris does not merely reflect physical health, it reveals a variety
of emotional states as well. Stories of anxiety, depression, anger, hypertension,
grief and many other emotional disturbances are all told by they eyes."
by Bernard Jensen ND
Nutrition
The study of the sum of the processes involved in taking in nutrients and assimilating and utilizing them It is a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth. Nutritional status is the physiological state that results from the consumption and biological utilization of energy and nutrients at the cellular level. Good nutrition can help prevent disease and promote health. There are six categories of nutrients that the body needs to acquire from food: protein, carbohydrates, fat, fibers, vitamins and minerals, and water.
Orthomolecular
Medicine
Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating
disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are
natural to the body. Orthomolecular is a term that comes from ortho, which
is Greek for "correct" or "right," and "molecule," which
is the simplest structure that displays the characteristics of a compound.
So it literally means the "right molecule.
Stress
Management
Stress management involves making emotional, physical and biochemical changes.
The degree of stress and the desire to make the changes will determine the
level of change that will take place. Stress management refers to various efforts
to control and reduce the tension that occurs in stressful situations.
