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[Home Remedies] | [Remedies Delivered by a Therapist] | [Talking Therapies] | [Teaching Therapies] | [Toxin Detection Therapies | [Touching Therapies] | [Tablet Therapies] | [Other Therapies] | [World Therapies] | [Therapists Lists Details] |
Natural Cures, Natural Remedies - Therapies and Techniques
Last modified 2014-03-16 17:11
Natural Remedies defines the concept that underlies Shared Care. We use the terms "therapy", "remedy" and "natural cure" interchangeably. None of them involves mainstream medical approaches to treatment. No knives are involved and any pill, potion or infusion used is directly derived from some natural substance and not synthesized in a laboratory from chemical ingredients, hence it is "natural". "Cure" is more contentious. All modalities will produce a subjective improvement in some people that they will describe as a "cure". Not everybody will benefit and the term "Natural Cures" should NOT be taken to imply such.
The natural remedies fall into two main categories:-
Home Remedies | Therapies Delivered by a Therapist |
Home Remedies
Self help is a very powerful weapon in illness and the empowering nature of home remedies should always be used in addition to other types of help if possible. Home remedies include self help books (see the lists on each therapy page and in the left side bar), pills and creams from the pharmacist, self help equipment like TENS machines and exercise balls, blood pressure machines and the like.
They can also include the medicinal use of readily available items in the kitchen cupboard such as olive oil to loosen earwax which has caused hearing problems and nutritional, vitamin or mineral supplements from the health shop.
Therapies Delivered by a Therapist
This section is for CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine), a blanket term encompassing what doctors would describe as alternative (we disagree, much preferring the term "complementary" - ed.) and complementary medicine.
The natural remedies involving an external therapist fall into seven main categories, and a catch all category where it doesn't fit into the other six. As always there are some that blur edges of that classification but remain essentially one of the main categories with elements of the others, or like Traditional Chinese Medicine or Ayurveda that encompass a whole philosophy combining all types.
Talking Therapies | Teaching Therapies | Toxin Detection Therapies |
Touching Therapies | Tablet Therapies | Other Therapies |
World Therapies |
This list is a pragmatic classification based on the "what happens" as opposed to the philosophy of mainline medicine which is the "why it happens". That would give a whole different set of rules based on cultural, spiritual and geographical considerations that is outside our remit. We are only interested in positive outcomes and not the rationales behind them, which may be arcane in the extreme.
Talking Therapies
The category is self explanatory. The primary mode of the natural remedy is the therapist talking, advising and interacting with the client/patient. These techniques will be modified over time by the personality of the therapist and the interaction is driven by the relationship between the patient/client and the therapist. This will change and develop over time and no consultation will be exactly the same as that following or preceding it.
Our list so far includes:-
BodyTalk | Counselling and Psychotherapy | Emotional Freedom Techniques |
Healing | Hypnosis | Life Coaching |
Meditation | Neurolinguistic Programming |
Teaching Therapies
Teaching "Therapies" are those that re-educate the client/patient to adopt a correct posture to alleviate all sorts of problems arising from the muscles, joints and bones. They may produce improvements in areas that seem to have little relation to the muscles, bones or joints.
Our list so far includes:-
Alexander Technique | Bowen Technique | Pilates |
T'ai Chi | Yoga |
Toxin Detection Therapies
Many ills are caused by the processing of food and the inclusion of substances that are toxic to some people. These may be things added deliberately such as sweeteners and preservatives or things produced by the process itself like tarry substances in barbecues. Similar toxins may be in the air. What I call toxin detection therapies link diseases to these phenomena and have adopted different methods for their detection. The advice is usually to avoid the offending substance.
Our list so far includes:-
Kinesiology | Naturopathy | Nutritional Therapy |
Touching Therapies
Touching therapies involve some form of physical contact between therapist and client/patient to produce their effects. The contact may be gentle (as in reflexology) or more vigorous (as in massage). It may use some part of the therapist's body (hand, knee, elbow) or some outside device (as in biofeedback) or even minimally invasive techniques such as acupuncture which involves piercing the skin with needles.
Our list so far includes:-
Acupuncture | Biofeedback | Chiropractic |
Craniosacral Therapy | Healing Touch | Massage |
Osteopathy | Reflexology | Shiatsu |
Tablet Therapies
These are those natural remedies that use some form of medicine taken by mouth or rubbed on. The essential element is that the treatment prescribed is derived from natural sources and not synthesized in a lab from pure chemicals.
Our list so far includes:-
Chinese Herbal Medicine | Homeopathy | Western Herbal Medicine |
World Therapies
Therapies such as Traditional Chinese Medicine combine all the elements above and represent a whole philosophy of treatment differing from mainline western medicine, but as global an approach.
Our list so far includes:-
Asian Bodywork Therapy | Ayurveda | Traditional Chinese Medicine |
Other Therapies
Reiki works with the energy fields and auras and involves some sort of passes over the body. It is a "non-touching" touch treatment and so falls outside that category. Aromatherapy involves treatment by fragrances and has been considered hypnosis by fragrances by some people. It too falls between categories. Lastly Approaches Individual to the Therapist is the catch-all category for those great individual techniques practiced by the more experienced and individual therapists that cannot be squeezed into a specific box.
Our list so far includes:-
Approaches Individual to the Therapist | Aromatherapy | Reiki |
Full Alphabetical List of Shared Care's Natural Cures
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Where Are Our Therapists, Whatever Their Therapy?
The lists of therapists' organisations by country are also on these pages
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India | Ireland | New Zealand |
South Africa | United States of America | |
Other Countries |
Find the list of therapists listed by therapy from the appropriate therapy page. For example, osteopaths from osteopathy and so on.
Where Are Our Practices?
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India | Ireland | New Zealand |
South Africa | United States of America | |
Other Countries |
Therapists Organisations
The following is a list of useful addresses of some of the organisations that have members practicing a range of different therapies. Please access the organisation's website to find current contact details.
The organisations may have international members and relevance. Their country of origin is given.
Australian Natural Therapists Association | Australia |
Natural Health Practitioners of Canada | Canada |
Embody | Great Britain |
British Holistic Medical Association | Great Britain |
British Complementary Medicine Association | Great Britain |
Institute for Complementary Medicine | Great Britain |
The Research Council for Complementary Medicine | Great Britain |
General Regulatory Council for Complementary Therapists | Great Britain |
Therapies United | Great Britain |
New Zealand Natural Medicine Association | New Zealand |
The New Zealand Charter of Health Practitioners | New Zealand |
Natural Healers Association | South Africa |
The American Holistic Health Association (AHHA) | United States of America |
Therapists College
The following college in Australia teaches an extensive number of natural therapies
Open Colleges Australia | Australia |
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