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Diaphoretic: Increases perspiration (syn: sudorific). Dyspepsia: Imperfect or painful digestion.

Diapulse treatment: Uses high-frequency electromagnetic
energy to improve metabolism and general organ function.

Diathermy: Electrically induced heat that is commonly E
used as a treatment for muscle relaxation and other
therapeutic purposes.

Dietary therapy: See Chinese food therapy. Ear candling: Also called ear coning or thermal-auricular
therapy, is primarily used for wax buildup and related
Discipline: A level of training that includes every hearing problems, ear candling is also used for ear
competency component needed to safely and appropriately infections and sinus infections. Treatment involves placing
apply the treatment.
the narrow end of a specially designed hollow candle at the
Dispersant: An oil used with essential oils to disperse them entry of the ear canal, while the opposite end is lit.
across the surface of the bath water. This prevents your Ebers Papyrus: A medical papyrus that recorded ancient
skin from coming into contact with a concentrated area of herbal treatments and knowledge.
essential oils (which can be harmful depending on the oil
used) and it also allows the oils to be distributed across Ecbolic: Tends to increase contractions of uterus,
the entire surface, and, depending on the agent, even to be facilitating childbirth.
mixed into the bathwater itself.
Eclectic medicine: A branch of American medicine which
Distal point: An acu-point that is located at a far distance made use of botanical remedies along with other substances
from another acu-point on the body. and physical therapy practices, popular in the latter half of
the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. The term was
Diuretic: Increases urine flow.
coined by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1784–1841),
Dovzhenko method: See Coding. a botanist and Transylvania University professor who had
studied Native American use of medicinal plants, wrote
Dowsing: Is an ancient art of searching for hidden things and lectured extensively on herbal medicine, and advised
(water, precious metals, etc) using one of the senses that patients and sold remedies by mail. Rafinesque used the
many of us are not even aware of possessing; reportedly word eclectic to refer to those physicians who employed
80% of people have this special gift - an ability to sense whatever was found to be beneficial to their patients.
things not perceptible to others. The term eclectic is derived from the Greek word eklego,
meaning “to choose from”).
Dreamwork: Dreams contain metaphorical, symbolic,
and archetypal language and images. Many are multilevel, Effleurage: Strokes used in massage, especially Swedish
with messages relevant to various aspects of one’s being: massage, as a warm-up to petrissage, which focuses on
physical health, emotional well-being, and soul level. deeper tissues.
Dreams may contain literal information about potential
future paths. Dreamwork explores meanings of dreams and Electrohomoeopathy: is a derivative of homeopathy
reveals how the different layers relate to one’s life. The invented in the 19th century by Count Cesare Mattei. The
dreamer is the authority on the meaning(s) of the dream; name is derived from a combination of electro (referring to
the dreamworker(s) offer insights using the “if this were my an electric bio-energy content supposedly extracted from
dream” format. Shamanistic dreamwork includes shamanic plants and of therapeutic value, rather than electricity in
journeying on the dream images. its conventional sense) and homeopathy (referring to an
alternative medicinal philosophy developed by Samuel
Drug: a pure substance or combination of pure substances Hahnemann in the 18th century). Electrohomeopathy has
(isolated from natural sources, semi-sythenthic, or purely been defined as the combination of electrical devices and
chemical in origin) intended to mitigate, treat, cure or homeopathy. Electrohomeopathy was devised by Cesare
prevent a disease in humans and other animals. Mattei (1809–1896) in the latter part of the 19th century.
Mattei, a nobleman living in a castle in the vicinity of
Dysmenorrhea: Painful menstruation. Bologna, studied natural science, anatomy, physiology,
pathology, chemistry and botany. He ultimately focused on

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