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Alternative Medicine - AIRC126

In this episode we'll be speaking about alternative medicine (aromatherapy, acupuncture etc.)

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Alternative medicine Email from Eva Garcia Romo Hello Craig! It's me again! Sorry, but nowadays I teach English in a wellness clinic to therapists, personal trainers and so on, and I really need your help to talk about vocabulary and expressions in this area. Would it be possible to have something about this in a podcast? Thanks in advance for your always kind help. Best regards Eva

Wikipedia: "Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as (presented as) having the healing effects of medicine, but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method. Nor is it part of biomedicine, nor contradicted by scientific evidence or established science."

Examples include new and traditional medicine practices such as homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, energy medicine, various forms of acupuncture, acupressure, traditional Chinese medicine, cupping, Ayurvedic medicine, Sekkotsu, Reiki, Bach flowers remedies, aromatherapy, Alexander technique, crystal healing, Shiatsu, reflexology, chromotherapy/colour therapy and Christian faith healing.

We don't have time to speak about ALL the difference types, but we're going to look at four kinds of alternative medicine and see if we believe that they actually work.

We'll look at HOMEOPATHY, ACUPUNCTURE, AROMATHERAPY and The ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

Vocab: To treat (treatment), to treat someone FOR something "I'm being treated for high uric acid." Placebo = a fake treatment with no physical/scientific basis for success, often used in clinical trials (Do/carry out/conduct) research Scientific studies Pseudoscience - a claim, belief, or practice presented as scientific, but which does not follow scientific method. A charlatan = someone who pretends (fingir) to know something that s/he really doesn't "Mind over matter" = believing that your thoughts can in themselves produce physical effects To cash in (on something) = to make money from a popular trend or fad eg. "The shopkeeper is cashing in on the popularity of crystal healing by starting to sell expensive healing crystals in his shop." A practitioner = a person who practices (alternative/conventional) medicine Conventional medicine = not alternative medicine (eg. radiation chemotherapy) New Age = the modern equivalent of the hippie/flower power movement

HOMEOPATHY What is homeopathy? "Homeopathy is a natural form of medicine used by over 200 million people worldwide to treat both acute and chronic conditions. It is based on the principle of 'like cures like'. In other words, a substance taken in small amounts will cure the same symptoms it causes if it were taken in lar