List of people in alternative medicine

This is a list of people in alternative medicine who are notable for developing, founding, inventing, promoting, practicing, marketing, commentating or researching on alternative medicine.

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  • Edward Bach – Founder of flower essence therapy and the Bach flower remedies.
  • William Horatio Bates – Founder of the Bates Method alternative approach to eyesight improvement.
  • Henry G. Bieler – American physician and author of Food is Your Best Medicine, known for diet-based healing and treatment of Hollywood celebrities.
  • Paul Bragg – Known for the Bragg Health Crusades, the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, deep breathing, water fasts, organic foods, juicing and listening to one's body.

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  • Charaka – One of the founders of Ayurveda.
  • Deepak Chopra – Endocrinologist and Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, author of popular books on health and spirituality.
  • Nicholas Culpeper – English physician, author of the early seventeenth century Culpeper's Herbal.

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  • Irene Gauthier – One of the founders of the field of Myomassology.[1]
  • Sylvester Graham – Known for Graham Crackers and founded Grahamism.
  • Stanislav Grof – One of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and founder of Holotropic Breathwork.

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  • Stan Jones – Promoter of colloidal silver, which has permanently turned his skin a blue-gray color.
  • Adolf Just – Late 19th/Early 20th century German naturopath. Advocate for the "Nature Cure" movement.

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  • Samuel Thomson – 19th century herbalist, founded Thomsonian Medicine.
  • Mabel Todd – Founded Ideokinesis, a form of somatic education, in the 1930s.
  • Mohammad Ali Taheri – founder of two complementary medicines Faradarmani and Psymentology.

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References

  1. Gray, Ellyn. "Celebrating a Michigan Pioneer!". Healing Garden Journal (May/June 2010).
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