Complementary and Alternate Healing Modalities Objectives By the

Complementary and Alternate Healing Modalities

Objectives By the end of this lecture , Students should be able to: • List other alternative healing modalities • Discuss the traditional healers in our society

Basic Concepts • • • Holism Humanism Balance Spirituality Energy Healing environment

Healing Modalities • • Systematized health care practice Botanical healing Nutritional Therapy Manual Healing Methods Mind-Body therapies Spiritual Therapy Miscellaneous

Systematized Health Care Practice • • Ayurveda Traditional Chinese medicine Native American healing Curanderismo

Botanical Healing • • Herbal Medicine Aromatherapy Homeotherapy Naturotherapy

Manual Healing Methods • • Chiropractic Massage Acupuncture/Acupressure/Reflexology Hand Mediated Biofielf Therapies

Mind-Body Therapies • • Yoga Meditation Hypnostherapy Guided imagery Biofeedback Qigong and T’ai Chi Pilates

Miscellaneous • • Music Therapy Humor Therapy Bioelectromagnetism Infrared Photoenergy Therapy Detoxification Animal-Assisted therapy Horticultural Therapy

Traditional Medicine-Allopathy • Traditional healer-person who is considered by the community to be capable of treating all kinds of illness using herbs or parts of animals • Resides in community and are respected • In 1999 – Act 568 was passed to promote traditional medicine in Ghana

Specialist • • Herbalist Spiritualist Bone setters Circumcisers Cicatrists TBA’s Neo-herbalist Faith healers

NEW CONCEPTS IN NURSING • Comprehensive Nursing • Individualized Nursing • Team Nursing • Primary Nursing • Functional Nursing • Family Nursing