Alternative Medicine Expanding Medical Horizons

Bioelectromagnetics Applications In Medicine

1. Define bioelectromagnetics (BEM).
2. Differentiate between endogenous and exogenous fields.
3. List applications of BEM.
4. Define TENS.  

Alternative Systems Of Medical Practice

1. Discuss the “hierarchy of resort.”
2. List characteristics of the major formal systems of medical practice.
3. Define major types of illnesses.
4. Discuss the conceptual basis for traditional Oriental medicine.
5. Define “qi.”
6. List treatment modalities associated with traditional Oriental medicine, and give a clinical
7. application of each.
8. Define acupuncture and state how it restores health.
9. Define Ayurvedic medicine.
10. Define the following terms:

1. dosha
2. nadi vigyan
3. panchakarma

1. Define homeopathy, and discuss its development in the United States .
2. State the major use of homeopathic medicine in the U.S.
3. List underlying movements of anthroposophical medicine.
4. Discuss the threefold model of the human mind-body processes.
5. List primary principles of naturopathic medicine.
6. Discuss the relevance of naturopathic medicine to women.
7. Define environmental medicine.
8. Discuss clinical conditions addressed by environmental medicine.
9. Discuss the concept of adaptation as pertaining to environmental medicine.
10. State features common to community based health care systems.
11. Define the following terms:
12. a. shaman
    b. powwowed
    c. medicine wheel
13. Discuss the role of the “sing” in Dineh healing practices.
14. Define curanderismo.
15. List Mexican-American folk illnesses and a treatment associated with each.
16. State one example of an urban community-based health care system.

Manual Healing Methods

1. State the underlying concept of the physical healing methods.
2. State major principles of osteopathy.
3. List manual medical methods taught in osteopathic colleges.
4. State the underlying concern of chiropractic science.
5. List major points of chiropractic philosophy.
6. State areas in which chiropractic manipulation has demonstrated effectiveness.
7. Define massage therapy.
8. List major types of massage practice.
9. Discuss clinical applications for massage therapy.
10. Define pressure point therapy, and list examples of pressure point therapy.
11. State the underlying principle of postural reeducation therapies, and list examples.
12. Describe the basic practice involved in “rolling.”
13. Describe the scope of biofield therapeutics as a healing practice.
14. List forms of biofield therapy taught in medical establishments.
15. List major hypotheses about the biofield.
16. Give examples of clinical results of biofield therapy.
17. Define the following:  

1. applied kinesiology
   b. polarity therapy
   c. qiqong longevity exercises
   d. craniosacral therapy

1. Discuss the relationship of physical therapy to alternative medicine.  

Pharmacological And Biological Treatments

1. List themes common to alternative pharmacological approaches.
2. Define and state one clinical application of each of the following:
3. a. antinioplastons
   b. cartilage products
   c. EDTA chelation therapy
   d. Ozone
   e. Immunoaugmentative therapy
   f. 714-X
   g. Hoxsey method
   h. Essiac
   i. Coley’s toxins
   j. MTH-68
   k. Neural therapy 
   l. Apitherapy
   m. Iscador
   n. Revici’s guided chemotherapy

Herbal Medicine

1. Discuss the scope of herbal medicine usage in the 20th century.
2. State a clinical application for each of the following:

1. echinacea
   b. ginkgo biloba
   c. ginseng root
   d. dryopteris root
   e. trikatu

1. List sources of information on herbal medicines.
2. Summarize the difference in attitudes towards herbal medicine between Europe and the United States.  

Diet and Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Disease

1. State the connection between affluent diet and disease.  
2. State the shift in focus of nutrition research in recent decades.
3. Define RDA.
4. Differentiate between RDAs and the Food Guide Pyramid.
5. Discuss the safety of vitamin and mineral supplementation.
6. Define orthomolecular medicine and give one example.
7. State one nutritional approach to treating each of the following conditions:

1. AIDS
   b. asthma
   c. cancer
   d. arteriosclerosis

1. Give examples of modification diets as a method for treating cancer.
2. Describe the Pritikin and Ornish diets.
3. Discuss the role of food elimination diets.
4. List alternative dietary lifestyles common in the United States .
5. Discuss health risks associated with strict vegetarian diets.
6. Define cultural diet.  
7. Give an example of one connection between nutrition and disease prevention in each of the following diets:  

1. Asian diet
   b. Mediterranean diet
   c. Native American diet

1. Discuss challenges in educating clients in nutritional practices.