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is not usually expected to replace a conventional treatment   system, lacks a central pump. Alternating hot and cold,
        but rather augments or complements it. Examples could   lymph vessels dilate and contract to essentially “pump” and
        include massage and dance therapy. The term describes a   move stagnant fluid out of the area.
        relationship to conventional medicine. What is considered
        “complementary” could change as the establishment      Conventional medicine: The medicine practiced and
        changes what it finds acceptable. Complementary        fully endorsed by the medical establishment. The terms
        treatments are also often used to complement alternative   traditional, Western, scientific and modern are sometimes
        primary care systems.                                  used interchangeably with conventional but each of these
                                                               has egocentric implications that make them less than
        Compounding pharmacy: A pharmacy where supplements  accurate.
        and pharmaceutical products are created on a case-by-case
        basis for each patient. A practitioner may recommend a   Cortex: Refers to the bark of the plant. Bark can be
        compounding pharmacy to a patient who has allergies to a   collected from the root, stem, or branches.
        particular ingredient or who has a preference in form (e.g.,
        cream vs. capsule) of a medication.                    Counterirritant: Agent producing an inflammatory
                                                               response for affecting an adjacent area.
        Confucianism: a humanistic ideology developed by       Cranial osteopathy: Practitioners use this method to “feel”
        a Chinese philosopher, Confucius (551 to 479 BCE).     fluid vibrations around the brain. It is connected with blood
        Confucianism is centered on the fact that humans are
        naturally moral and can be instructed how to get rid of their   pressure within the brain and its changes.
        imperfections through following certain tenants or rules.   Craniosacral therapy: A manual therapeutic procedure
        These tenants include morality and virtue, family, justice,   used to remedy distortions in the structure and function
        propriety, and law.                                    of the craniosacral mechanism: the brain and spinal cord,
                                                               the bones of the skull, the sacrum, and interconnected
        Congenital: A disease, condition, or abnormality that one
        is born with.                                          membranes. The procedure is used to treat chronic pain,
                                                               migraine headaches, temporomandibular joint disease, and
        Constitutional imbalance: A constitutional imbalance is   a range of other conditions and is performed by a range of
        a long term disease process that will eventually result in a   licensed health practitioners.
        full blown lifestyle or chronic disease. Metabolic syndrome   Craniosacral-based techniques: techniques that address
        is an example of a constitutional imbalance that if left
        unchecked will eventually lead to the lifestyle or chronic   the liquids and membranes that support the functionality of
        disease known as diabetes mellitus.                    the brain and spinal cord.
                                                               Creative visualization: is the cognitive process of
        Contour analysis: An acupuncture, acupressure,         purposefully generating visual mental imagery, with eyes
        chiropractic procedure in which light is passed through   open or closed, simulating or recreating visual perception,
        a grid and onto the patient’s body, thereby producing an
        image similar to a topographic map, which is then used to   in order to maintain, inspect, and transform those images,
        pinpoint spinal faults. Also called moiré contourography.  consequently modifying their associated emotions or
                                                               feelings, with intent to experience a subsequent beneficial
        Contrast bath therapy: Also known as “hot/cold         physiological, psychological, or social effect, such as
        immersion therapy”, is a form of treatment where a limb   expediting the healing of wounds to the body, minimizing
        or the entire body is immersed in warm water followed by   physical pain, alleviating psychological pain including
        the immediate immersion of the limb or body in ice water.   anxiety, sadness, and low mood, improving self-esteem or
        This procedure is repeated several times, alternating hot   self-confidence, and enhancing the capacity to cope when
        and cold. Note that the treatment should always end in the   interacting with others.
        ice water, as heat will induces the body’s inflammatory   Crude drug: Natural products, which are not pure
        response, while cold helps to decrease inflammation. The
        theory behind contrast bath therapy is that the warm water   compounds (i.e., plants or parts of plants, extracts, or
        causes vasodilation of the blood flow in the limb or body   exudes).
        followed by the cold water which causes vasoconstriction,   Cryotherapy: The medical practice by which low
        increasing local blood circulation. Additionally, the   temperatures are applied generally or locally to the body to
        lymph vessels contract when exposed to cold, and relax in   treat a variety of benign or malignant lesions.
        response to heat. The lymph system, unlike the circulatory


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