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Chakra balancing therapy is based on the ancient Indian beliefs of the chakra model; chakra means a wheel or circle of life.
Chelation therapy is the process by which heavy metals are removed from the body by the use of chelating agents. It is more recently being used in alternative medicine to treat several other conditions.
Chinese herbal medicine, or Chinese herbology as it is also called, is the production and prescription of crude medicines based solely on the combination of specific herbs.
Chiropractic is an alternative and complementary form of therapy that concentrates on the musculoskeletal system and the effects this has on the nervous system and health in general. In this respect, chiropractic therapy is also a holistic therapy.
Cognitive analytic therapy was developed using mainly the ideas behind cognitive therapy — as well as an amount of psychoanalytic therapy — by Dr. Anthony Ryle primarily for use in the UK’s National Health Service.
Cognitive therapy is a psychotherapy developed by Aaron Beck, a psychiatrist, in the 1960s.
Coherence therapy is quite a new form of psychotherapy based on the theory that behaviour and symptoms of mood and thought are coherently produced by the body.
Colloidal silver is a liquid containing microscopic particles of silver that was historically used by the medical profession as a mainstream antibiotic.
Colon hydrotherapy may also be referred to as ‘colonic Irrigation’ or simply as a ‘colonic’.
Colour therapy is an alternative medicine based on the assumption that colour and light can be used to balance a person’s bodily energy, whether they are lacking physical, emotional, mental or spiritual energy.
Conversion therapy is also known as ‘reparative therapy’ or ‘sexual reorientation therapy’, and is a therapy designed to convert homosexual men and women into heterosexuals.
Counselling therapy covers a very broad spectrum of therapies designed to help people get through problems faced in their everyday lives – people who are, for all intents and purposes, perfectly healthy in mind and body, and simply need some help coping with a particular problem.
Cranio-sacral therapy (sometimes referred to as craniosacral or cranial osteopathy) is an alternative form of medicine which is often also used as a complementary medicine to other therapies, such as massage and chiropractics.
Crystal therapy (or crystal healing, as it is also referred to) is an alternative healing therapy based on ancient beliefs that crystals have healing and spiritual powers.
Cupping therapy, or ‘fire cupping’ as it is sometimes known, is a traditional Chinese medicine which has been used for thousands of years. In more recent years, it is becoming more commonly used in the Western world.