Ayurveda Medicine means "the science of life" and teaches us about living, on all levels, in harmony with the environment and the universe around us. It encompassed the oldest form of herbal medicine known dating back to the ancient Vedic culture of India whose people originally spoke the Sanskrit language. Ayurveda recommends a well balanced lifstyle as the way to maintain health based on three fundamental constitutions or body types. Ayurveda is all inclusive in that it encompasses not only yoga, meditation, and food guidelines (nutrition), but surgery and astrology among other areas. The entire science of ayurveda is based on the "Five Great Elements" (Panchmahabhuta) theory. These five elements are earth, water, fire, air, and ether or space. As far as we know, it is the original holistic medicine dating back 8,000-10,000 years. The three doshas or constitutions (aka humoral categories) called vata, pitta, and kapha are associated with these five great elements above. All three doshas are necessary for life to exist. The goal of the healing art of Ayurveda is to balance the three doshas to bring the body, mind, and spirit into harmony with nature. Click here to find Ayurvedic provider in your area.

Food Therapy/Nutrition is the act or process of nourishing or being nourished, the sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and utilized food substances. It is a science that centers on foods, their nutrient and other chemical constituents, and the effects of food on body processes and health. This modality focuses on adapting a person’s diet according to the individual’s symptoms and condition. Click here to find Food Therapy/Nutritional providers in your area.

Herbalism,Western is the practice of utilizing plants indigenous to North America. However other countries plants have been woven into the body of its knowledge. Herbs have been called part of "natures pharmacy". Many of the drugs used in conventional medicine (allopathic) have been derived from herbs, isolating the "active agent", whereas herbalism uses the whole plant or whole parts of the plant, such as the leaves, flowers, or the roots. These herbs can be present in teas, tinctures, alcohol extracts, dried, as a salve, oil or liniment. Click here to find Herbalism,Western provider in your area.

Holistic Medicine is an approach to medical care that emphasizes the study of all aspects of a person’s health, including physical, psychological, social, economic and cultural factors. Emphasizing the organic or functional relationship between parts and wholes. Each holistic practitioner usually specializes and is educated in two or more of the other alternative therapies. (i.e. maybe an herbalist, acupuncturist and a homeopathy physician or any combination thereof). Click here to find Holistic providers in your area.

Homeopathic Medicine (likes treating with likes) or “the law of similars”. A system of medical practice that treats a disease by the administration of minute doses of remedy that would in healthy persons produce symptoms of the disease treated. Its philosophy is well defined. Do no harm, treat the whole person, use powers in nature to stimulate cures from within on the principle of similars, let like cure like. The remedy comes in small pills, granules, tablets, powders, or liquids as prescribed by your physician. Remedies are highly diluted and will have little to no adverse effects on some patients, but can cause minimal aggravations to others. There are guidelines, however, to its administration. Click here to find Homeopathy providers in your area.

Naturopathic Medicine is a system of therapy that relies on natural remedies, such as sunlight supplemented with diet and massage to treat illness. Their belief is that all disease is toxicity and therefore their method of treating disease is the use of food, exercise, heat and natural modalities to assist the natural healing process. Naturopathic Medical Doctors in the state of Arizona are primary care physicians, licensed to integrate conventional and alternative medicine. They are licensed in conventional diagnostic and therapeutic tools, including lab work, diagnostic imaging, minor surgery and prescription medications, and in practice conduct physical examinations, gynecological exams, nutritional assessment, allergy testing, etc. Naturopathic Medical Doctors are the only primary care physicians clinically trained in the use of a variety of natural and alternative therapeutics, including acupuncture, oriental and botanical medicines, homeopathy, natural hormone therapy, mind-body medicine, etc. Click here to find Naturopathic providers in your area.

Traditional Chinese Medicine is an alternative system of treatment arising from a holistic philosophy of life. It emphasizes the interconnection of the mental, emotional, and physical components within each person, and the importance of harmony between individuals and their social groups. It relies on a concept of universal energy or “life force" or "chi" and encompasses the yin and yang philosophy (two opposites that are complementary and inter- dependent such as light and dark, wet and dry, up and down, in and out, hot and cold) as well as incorporating the five elements (wind, water, earth, fire and metal). The practice includes tongue and pulse assessment, abdominal touch diagnosis, observation diagnosis, listening, questioning, urine analysis, taste, sleep patterns and perspiration. Treatments include acupuncture, moxibustion, herbal therapy, acupressure massage, cupping, therapeutic exercises and advice on diet and lifestyle. It is based on the principle of internal balance and harmony. Click here to find Traditional Chinese Medical provider in your area.

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