Archive: Alternative and Complementary Medicine
How Well Do You Know Your Massage Therapist?
Besides the obvious horrors the recent arrest of Radovan Karadzic dredged up, it was really freaky to find out that the Butcher of Bosnia, murderer of a reported 8,000 men and boys, has apparently for years been practicing complementary medicine in Belgrade under the pseudonym Dragan Dabic. Among the...
By Jennifer Huget | July 23, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (5)
The NIH and The Woo-Woo Thing
Any yoga enthusiast (including me) will tell you that the ancient practice of yoking breath to bodily motion is good for your body, mind, and soul. But it's taken the mainstream medical community some time to view yoga as a demonstrably effective treatment for illness or tool for preventing disease....
By Jennifer Huget | May 21, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (5)
Laughter Yoga. No Joke!
I don't normally find yoga all that funny, except sometimes when I tip over during tree pose and fall in a heap on the floor. But then again, I've never tried laughter yoga. Devised in India in the mid-1990s by Madan Kataria and brought to the U.S. by a handful...
By Jennifer Huget | May 9, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
