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Holistic Medicine Holistic medicine, also known as alternative or complementary medicine, comprises a number of disciplines including acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy, and massage. None of the information on these sites is meant to replace advice from a doctor or health practitioner -- your own good judgment is, as ever, essential in these matters. |
| HEALTHWORLD ONLINE holds an astonishingly broad range of natural approaches to healing covered in great depth. Here you will find information about acupuncture, ay-urvedic medicine, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy, naturopathic medicine, osteopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and mind/body connection. Under the subheading of Alternative Therapies you can learn about aromatherapy, biofeedback training, bodywork, chelation, detoxing, fasting, Bach flower remedies, and holistic dentistry. All of these topics are addressed by leading professionals in their respective fields. There is a search engine to track down specific topics as well.
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| The Alternative Medicine Homepage is a great jump-station to other sites including mailing lists, newsgroups, and databases. It also includes information on the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM), a branch of the National Institute of Health established in 1992 to evaluate different forms of alternative medicine. You'll find instructions for fax retrieval of information about the OAM. This is probably the best place to start if you'd like to explore holistic medicine but don't know exactly what you're looking for.
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| THE HOMEOPATHY HOMEPAGE is a wonderful primer on this system of treating illness with energy medicine through the law of similars. Homeopaths let like cure like: for instance, if you have watery eyes and a runny nose, try a remedy derived from an onion. This is the most comprehensive jump-off point to other homeopathy sites, newsgroups, and mailing lists. The links to other forms of complementary medicine are worth further investigation.
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| ACUPUNCTURE.COM is a good place to learn about Chinese herbology and massage, Qi energy, and nutrition, as well as acupuncture. (Qi energy, or Qi Gong, is the underlying meditation practice behind Kung Fu and Tai Chi.) The site explains acupuncture from ground up and offers special information on acupuncture for women and people with substance-abuse problems. The herbology section is useful for beginners, but also offers articles on various herbs and herb combinations, with pharmacological details. You'll also find detailed instructions for performing Qi Gong and extensive listings of acupuncture practitioners all over the world. This site has it all: research, news, and articles for folks who are simply interested and for serious practitioners. Even if you're skeptical, you might be swayed by the testimonials from people who've found that traditional Chinese medicine has helped them through a variety of diseases and conditions. You can even find information here on where to get training so that you, too, can become a practitioner. The judicious use of graphics -- Chinese characters for each of the sections, with an explanation of the origin of the character -- is commendable and nice for folks with slow connections.
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| For a great set of annotated links to herbal matters online, visit HENRIETTE'S HERBAL HOMEPAGE.
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| BOTANICAL.COM boasts a searchable database of 800 medicinal plants. You need only know a plant's common name to find its actions and uses. Those looking for remedies can search by ailment. The site's editor notes that this information is meant for historical interest only: "It is as dangerous for amateurs to doctor themselves indiscriminately with herbs as it would be for them to administer drugs in their alkaloid form."
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| Herbal Hall is mostly an enormous archive of downloadable documents, but each month the featured herb is converted into a graphical Web document. Mainly of interest to professional herbalists, Herbal Hall includes information on growing, tending, harvesting, processing, and using a number of herbs. It also has links to many other herbology-related sites.
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| The Kombucha Home Page is a complete rundown on Kombucha and Kombucha-related Internet resources. Kombucha is a fermented tea made from a fungus, highly praised in the Far East for its health-giving properties. This page tells you what Kombucha will do for you, how to start a culture and prepare the tea, and which books and videos will give you further information.
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| CancerGuide: Alternative Therapies is a series of no-nonsense, text-only pages in which Steve Dunn covers a variety of "alternative therapies" for cancer, such as bovine cartilage therapy, shark cartilage therapy, Gerson therapy, and others. Some are debunked, while others are conditionally recommended.
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| Everything you ever wanted to know about Qi Gong is on Diti's QiGong Page : the basics, scientific papers, historical sources, and links to related sites.
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| The Aesclepian Chronicles is an electronic magazine originating in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, sponsored by the Synergistic Medicine Center (SMC). The writing is a bit uneven, but it's a true magazine with book reviews, letters to the editor, and research articles. Unlike some other sites, the promotional content is not too heavy-handed. The articles, only some of which are written by SMC staff, cover issues such as the health benefits of expressing appreciation in the workplace and personal accounts of caring for a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease. As a magazine, it holds up.
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| Good Medicine offers a peek at what you can find in the hard copy version of what is now Good Medicine Journal, formerly Good Medicine Magazine. The back issues here from 1994 contain articles on herbology, massage, and aromatherapy, but it's mostly light reading for your virtual bathroom.
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| The Holistic Internet Community gives you essays on a variety of topics including Reiki, acupuncture, and Feng Shui. Its alphabetical list of practitioners covers mainly Massachusetts. At the time we reviewed it, it was heavily under construction.
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| The Montgomery Method is an ad for Kate Montgomery's books and balms, but it might be of particular interest to computer users since it covers Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The Montgomery Method is a seven-step system of massage and corrective exercises that are a possible alternative to surgery.
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| The topics examined by Alternative Care are better covered elsewhere, but because it's authored by a chiropractic student, it's a good source of information on schools, financial aid, and other links of interest to students.
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| Traditional Natural Life has a lot to say about citizens rights and your natural 120-year life span, but the basic idea is that you need to subscribe to the Natural News Wire Digest. Incessant, weird use of bolding and italics makes this look like an Internet chain letter.
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| Unlike Herbal Hall, Herb'n Outfitters is an unabashedly commercial site: It wants to sell you herbs on-line. There's not much to it other than a pretty unspectacular "Land of Links" and a price listing with a couple of sentences each on what a particular herb will do for you. Use it only if you know what you're doing and you think you're getting a bargain.
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| GLOSSARY OF HERBS AND AROMAS is a terrifically simple guide to scents for what ails you. (It's a quick route from your nose to your brain, don't forget!)
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| The folks at AROMATHERAPY 101 give good instructional information on how to use healing scents as compresses and in diffusers, baths, and massage.
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