Alternative Health
Air
You’re unlikely to be able to do much about the air in your community, but you can do something about the air in your body. Breathing properly is something few of us do, although it’s essential to good health.
“What?”, you say. “I know how to breathe.” Well, yes. But most of us do shallow breathing using only the top of our lungs, never using our full lung capacity. For optimum air and oxygen intake, as well as taking in the energy referred to as “prana” or “chi”, we should breathe deeply from the bottom of our lungs.
See also our Air page.
Deep Slow Easy Breathing Exercise
Instructions for a short, simple and effective breathing exercise
Breathing with sounds
Apple Cider Vinegar
A popular and inexpensive home remedy for a variety of health problems.
Making and using it.
Information and comments from people who have used it as a tonic and remedy
Natural Healing with Cider Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar as a remedy, for hygiene, and in the kitchen [book]
Aromatherapy
Flowers and herbs don’t just smell good. They smell healthy. And are.
Essential oils, formulas and recipes [book]
Aromatherapy Global Online Research Archives (AGORA)
An international group of volunteers dedicated to providing noncommercial aromatherapy education
Lots of articles from a recognized expert
National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy
Dedicated to enhancing public awareness of the benefits of true aromatherapy
Guide to essential oils
Bach Flower Remedies
A natural system of healing and stress management created in the 1930s by English physician Edward Bach. The safe, non-toxic liquids are formulated from 38 flowering plants and trees.
Authorized courses in the U.S. and Canada
Bach Flower Remedies Video Tutorial
introduction and background to the Bach Flower Remedies.
Bach Foundation Registered Practitioners
Worldwide list of practitioners
Official Bach site. Information on each of the 38 remedies and Rescue Remedy, plus a FAQ.
U.S. manufacturer/distributor
Bates Eye Exercises
Exercises for improving your eyesight without lenses or surgery.
Bates Association for Vision Education
Association of Bates Method teachers
A website with extensive information on the use of the Bates method
The original book by Dr. William Bates, published in 1920, and available online free in its entirety.
Links to Bates practitioners and other methods of vision enhancement
Colloidal Silver
Using silver for health is not new. It goes back centuries. More recently, pioneers in their covered wagons crossing the American continent in the 1800s would put a silver dollar in the water barrel to keep the water pure. Colloidal silver carries on the tradition. Some call it quackery, others swear by it as an anti-bacterial and anti-viral technique. Look into it yourself.
Yahoo discussion group
Colloidal Silver – A Closer Look
Good overview on colloidal silver and making it at home
Worldwide association of miners, refiners, fabricators and manufacturers
Silver – Nature’s Water Purifier
Benefits of colloidal silver
Exercise
You don’t need to be given any suggestions. If you’re already exercising regularly, you know what to do. If you’re not, you still know what to do but just aren’t doing it. You’re not suffering from lack of information.
Hydrogen Peroxide
Everybody knows its uses for putting on a cut or for cleaning things in the house, but there is much more.
Health and cleaning
Many Benefits of Hydrogen Peroxide
Healing with peroxide
For Flu or Colds
Hydrogen Peroxide: Medical Miracle
The use and benefits of hydrogen peroxide [book]
Insomnia
If you don’t get a good night’s sleep, nothing goes right. Try these ideas.
30 Simple Tips to Help You Get to Sleep
Light
Actually, the sun is not out to get us. Sunlight is good, and essential for our health.
How we can use it to heal ourselves. [book]
Massage
Instructions for giving and receiving erotic massage. It’s more than just healthy
Gives detailed massage instruction. Focus is sexual but the techniques themselves are actually standard.
Effective, simple techniques for home or office
Instructions from Student Affairs at the Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chinese method of self-massage
Good instructions covering almost the entire body
Meditation
See our Meditation and Relaxation page
Mushrooms
See also our Drugs and Food pages.
Paul Stamets’ ultimate mushroom website. A family-owned, environmentally friendly company specializing in using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms to improve the health of the planet and its people.
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
From the founder of fungi.com [book]
Medicinal Mushroom Information
Cross-index of mushrooms and targeted therapeutic effects
An exploration of tradition, healing and culture [book]
A practical guide to growing mushrooms at home [book]
How mushrooms can help save the world. New methods for growing mushrooms, generating mycelium, and implanting mushroom colonies into the environment. Includes chapters on nutrition, medicinal properties, log and stump culture and natural culture, using easy to use and low-tech techniques. [book]
Devoted to the science of mycology (the study of the fungi) and the hobby of mushrooming (the pursuit of mushrooms). Includes the “The Fungi of California” with photographs and descriptions of over 400 species of fungi found in California (and over 1800 total photographs)
Excellent resources with a very useful beginner’s introduction
Article on Paul Stamets
Qigong
Qigong is an ancient Chinese art of healing and revitalizing the body.
A variation in spelling. Frequently asked questions.
An introduction to Chinese medicine
Techniques from various schools of Qigong
Reflexology / Acupressure
Reflexology is a form of acupressure in which healing is done by pressing and stimulating specific zones of the hands and feet. Corresponding parts of the body are energized by this pressure.
Good article’s from the author of Acupressure’s Potent Points
Online interactive maps of the reflexology zones on the feet. Also downloadable foot and hand charts.
Association of Reflexologists
How to Apply Pressure to Points When Doing Shiatsu
Shiatsu is Japanese acupuncture
Reflexology Massage Instructions
Charts and instructions for doing reflexology
Frequently asked questions
Relaxation
See our Meditation and Relaxation page.
Sanitation
See our Sanitation page.
Sunshine
Perhaps it’s time to let go of our paranoia about being attacked by sunlight, and start to recognize how healthy the source of all life energy is.
Why the sun can be good for your health
Sick? Well? Sunbathing Helps You and Everyone
More thoughts on the benefits of sunbathing
Official site for Hira Ratan Manek, the guru (literally) of sungazing
Yahoo discussion group
Water
See also our Water page
Website of the author of “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water”
Various health problems caused by insufficient water
Your Body’s Many Cries for Water
You are not sick; you are thirsty. [book]
Yoga
Yoga is a body of ancient Indian spiritual practices. The branch of yoga most people are aware of is Hatha Yoga, which is designed to purify and strengthen the body, improving it as a vehicle for meditation. One of the many benefits of yoga is that you don’t have to buy anything to do it.
Yoga sequences for specific ailments
Complete instructions for more than 100 yoga postures
The classic magazine with a huge amount of online information
General Holistic Websites
Alternative and Complementary Medicine
