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level questions: Level 2

Question	Answer
Emphasizes proper balance of qi Acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage, qigong	Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Began thousands of years ago in India Aims to restore harmony by questioning, observing, touching, and classifying patients	Ayurveda
Unconventional western system based on the idea that "likes cures like" Herbal medicine, minerals, and chemicals in diluted forms to kill or ward off illness	Homeopathy
Emphasizes restoring health rather than curing diseases Diet, clinical nutrition, homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, hydrotherapy, manipulation, physical therapy, therapeutic counseling, and pharmacology	Naturopathy
The national center for complementary and alternative medicine has grouped the many varieties of CAM into four domains:	1 Manipulative and body-based practices 2 Energy medicine 3 Mind-body medicine 4 Biologically based practices
Focuses either on energy fields thought to originate within the body (biofields) or on fields from other sources (electromagnetic fields)	Energy Medicine
Similar to acupuncture but uses pressure Focuses on balancing yin and yang	Acupressure
method involves focusing on “interactions” among the brain, mind, body and behavior, and the powerful ways in which mental, emotional, social, spiritual and behavioral factors can directly affect health.	MIND – BODY MEDICINE
Biologically based practices	1 Herbal medicines 2 Special supplements
Forms of CAM in the Philippines	1 Herbal Therapy 2 Hilots/Arbularyos 3 Faith Healing 4 Reflexology 5 Acupuncture 6 Naturopathy 7 Chiropractic
a traditional practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. also known as botanical medicine, herbal medicine and phototherapy. include fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts	HERBAL THERAPY
the “general practitioners” among the folkloric medicine men in the Philippines. Folkloric “diagnostic” terms: pi-ang, panuhot, nabughat, napasmo, gisubaw, gikabuhi, gibuyagan, gidaotan	HILOTS/MANANAMBAL
religion and indigenous and tribal spiritualities influence its healing modalities practice includes:- prayers, incantations, massage, herbs; some include "new-age" ingredients of magnets, crystals, and prannic healing The most controversial is the so-called “psychicbare-handed surgery.”	FAITH HEALING
massaging or applying pressure to parts of the feet, or sometimes the hands and ears, with the goal of encouraging a beneficial effect on other parts of the body, or to improve general health. no consensus among practitioners on how reflexology works but they hypothesize that the blockage of an energy field, the invisible life force, or Qi, can prevent healing.	REFLEXOLOGY
The procedure of inserting and manipulating filiform needles into various points of the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes. Acupuncture points are situated on meridians along which Qi (“life energy”) flows	ACUPUNCTURE
focuses on naturally-occurring and minimally-invasive methods, trusting the "healing power of nature. "synthetic" drugs, radiation, and major surgery are avoided rejection of biomedicine and modern science in favor of the “healing power” of the body and nature.	NATUROPATHY
emphasizes diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculo-skeletal system, especially the spine, under the hypothesis that these disorders affect general health via the nervous system assumes that a vertebral subluxation or spinal joint dysfunction interferes with the body's function and its innate intelligence	CHIROPRACTIC
stresses a balance of three Humors or Energies: wind/air, bile and phlegm when these three energies are in a balanced state, the body is healthy, and when imbalanced, the body has diseases body, mind, and spirit/consciousness need to be addressed both individually and in unison for health to ensue	AYURVEDA
Technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health.	IRIDOLOGY (IRIDODIAGNOSIS)
WHY DO PEOPLE AVAIL OF CAM?	non-availability of conventional treatment either due to location, kind of illness or terminal condition the “high cost” of conventional treatment empowering especially its self-care aspect such as diets, supplements and efforts at prevention and health promotion