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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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