Whole “alternative” medical systems, both Eastern (like Total Chinese Medicine and India’s Ayurveda) and Western (like homeopathy and naturopathy), are practiced in India
Reiki
Reiki is a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system that incorporates elements of spiritual healing, auras, crystals, chakra balancing, meditation, aromatherapy, naturopathy and homeopathy. Reiki seeks to transfer the life force of energy from practitioner to patient to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself through the balancing of energy.
Pranic Healing
Pranic Healing is an ancient science of healing that utilizes prana (life energy) to accelerate the body’s natural healing process. The mainstream medical fraternity is gradually waking up to the role of pranic healing in trauma control and pain relief. For example, cancer hospitals are evaluating its use to assuage the ravaging effects of chemotherapy.
Total Chinese Medicine
Total Chinese Medicine is a complete system of healing that uses herbs, acupuncture, and massage to help bring the body back into harmony and wellness.
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Ayurveda
Ayurveda is a holistic approach to health that focuses on the root cause(s) – physical, mental, emotional – of illness, rather than merely the symptoms. One of the oldest medical systems in existence, it looks at both the preventive and curative aspects of health, and has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an effective system of medicine. Today, Ayurveda has been acknowledged as especially effective for lifestyle related diseases, degenerative and psychosomatic disorders. Simultaneously, there is recognition that Ayurveda has been successful in reversing chronic conditions, regarded as being incurable as per conventional allopathy.
Ayurveda is practiced all over India, but the most authentic experiences are in the Ayurveda Shalas of Kerala on the South Coast. You can choose to undergo treatment for a particular ailment, or simply rejuvenation therapies to slough off the stresses of modern living.
Unani
Unani is a Graeco-Arabic healing system that is very similar to Ayurveda – while Unani was influenced by Islam, Ayurveda is associated with Vedic culture. Unani believes the human body is made of elements - earth, water, fire, air - and imbalance of these elements leads to illness. Treatment, therefore, consists of restoring the balance of the elements in the body. Many medicines and remedies used in Unani are also used in Ayurveda. In India, Unani practitioners can practice as qualified doctors.
Homeopathy
Homoeopathy is a healing system based on the principal 'Like Cures Like'. Homoeopathy seeks to treat diseases with remedies, prescribed in minute doses, which are capable of producing symptoms similar to the disease when taken by healthy people. The remedies are prepared from natural substances to precise standards and work by stimulating the body's own healing power. An estimated 10% of the Indian population relies solely on Homeopathy for their healthcare needs, finding it to be gentle, cheap and effective.
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Naturopathy
Naturopathy is a healing system that adopts a “Back to Nature” approach to stimulate the body’s inherent power to be healthy. Naturopathy seeks to regain and maintain health by adopting a simple way of living in harmony with the self, society and the environment. Diet plays a major role, and other elements of therapy include hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, physiotherapy, psychological counseling, and massages.
Magnetotherapy
Magnetotherapy is a healing system that uses pulsative magnetic fields to activate enzymes and regulate the metabolism, thereby strengthening the immune system and suppressing, even eliminating certain health problems. Magnetotherapy is non-invasive and often provides fast relief for both acute and chronic ailments.
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