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Chiropractic: The chiropractic system is based on      Coffee enemas: Are said to stimulate the liver to rid itself
        the premise that the spine is liter- ally the backbone of   more effectively of deadly toxins.  They were popularized
        human health: misalignments of the vertebrae caused by   in cancer treatment by Dr. Max Gerson and are used along
        poor posture or trauma result in pressure on the spinal   with other cancer therapies as well.  They must be prepared
        cord, which may lead to diminished function and illness.   according to certain specifications.
        The chiropractor seeks to analyze and correct these
        misalignments through spinal manipulation or adjustment.   Coining therapy: See Gua sha.

        Cholagogue: An agent that increases flow of bile from   Cold laser therapy: An alternative-medicine treatment
        gallbladder.                                           that uses low-level lasers or light-emitting diodes to target
                                                               acupoints or broad portions of tissue to stimulate change
        Chronic: An incurable disease or condition. An illness   in the tissue. Also known as low-level laser therapy, or
        persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.    (LLLT).

        Chronotherapy:  The use of colour (usually in the form of   Colloidal silver therapy: Colloidal silver (a colloid
        coloured light) to produce beneficial or healing effects.  consisting of silver particles suspended in liquid)
                                                               and formulations containing silver salts were used
        Chronotherapy: refers to the use of circadian or other   by physicians in the early 20th century, but their use
        rhythmic cycles in the application of therapy. Examples of   was largely discontinued in the 1940s following the
        this are treatments of psychiatric and somatic diseases that   development of safer and effective modern antibiotics.
        are administered according to a schedule that corresponds   Hippocrates in his writings discussed the use of silver in
        to a person’s rhythms in order to maximize effectiveness   wound care. At the beginning of the twentieth century
        and minimize side effects of the therapy. Chronotherapy is   surgeons routinely used silver sutures to reduce the risk
        used in different fields, examples of this are the treatment   of infection. In the early 20th century, physicians used
        of asthma, cancer, hypertension, and multiple types of   silver-containing eye drops to treat ophthalmic problems,
        depression, among others seasonal affective disorder and   for various infections, and sometimes internally for
        bipolar disorder. Apart from the clinical applications,   diseases such as tropical sprue, epilepsy, gonorrhea, and the
        chronotherapy is becoming increasingly popular in non-  common cold. During World War I, soldiers used silver leaf
        clinical settings, for example on the work floor, where it is   to treat infected wounds.
        used to increase productivity and performance.
                                                               Colon hydrotherapy/colonic irrigation: The absorption
        Chrysotherapy: See Aurotherapy.                        of nutrients is enhanced when the colon is cleansed. This
                                                               safe and painless process involves infusing filtered and
        Cicatrizant: Aiding formation of scar-tissue and healing   temperature regulated water into the large intestine to
        wounds.
                                                               dislodge impacted material and dilute bacteria and toxic
        Circulatory: An organ system that involves the flow    concentrations. Colon hydrotherapy to improve muscle tone
        of blood and other important body substances such as   and facilitate peristalsis action.
        carbon dioxide, oxygen, hormones, and electrolytes. The   Colonics: A colonic is a colon irrigation, the irrigation
        circulatory system helps the body combat disease and helps   of the large intestine with sanitized, filtered water under
        the body keep a standard body temperature and pH.
                                                               gentle pressure to wash out or detoxify it of stagnated fecal
        Coding: Is a catch-all term for various Russian alternative   material; it is a full intestinal enema.
        therapeutic methods used to treat addictions, in which the   Color therapy: See Chronotherapy.
        therapist attempts to scare patients into abstinence from
        a substance they are addicted to by convincing them that   Compassion: The humane quality of understanding the
        they will be harmed or killed if they use it again. Each   suffering of others and wanting to do something about
        method involves the therapist pretending to insert a “code”   it; a deep awareness of and sympathy for another’s
        into patients’ brains that will ostensibly provoke a strong   suffering. More involved than simple empathy, compassion
        adverse reaction should it come into contact with the   commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate
        addictive substance. The methods use a combination of   another’s suffering.
        theatrics, hypnosis, placebos, and drugs with temporary
        adverse effects to instill the erroneous beliefs. Therapists   Complementary health care: A non-primary care system
        may pretend to “code” patients for a fixed length of time,   of health care or specific treatment that is not currently
        such as five years.                                    widely accepted by conventional medicine. The treatment

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