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Your Guide to Alternative Medicine.
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Find out how three experienced alternative practitioners use natural therapies to address migraines. Learn about their unique perspective. Homeopathy

Homeopathy is an alternative therapy that is thought to work by stimulating the body's defense mechanisms. An individualized therapy, it involves giving small doses of substances called homeopathic remedies. According to homeopathy, these remedies would produce the same or similar symptoms of illness in healthy people if they were given in larger doses.

Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral therapy is an alternative therapy that involves manually applying subtle movement of the spinal and cranial bones in order to allow cerebrospinal fluid to move optimally throughout the body.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a component of traditional Chinese medicine that originated in China over 5,000 years ago. It's based on the belief that living beings have a vital energy, called "qi", that circulates through twelve invisible energy lines known as meridians on the body. Each meridian is associated with a different organ system. An imbalance in the flow of qi throughout a meridian is how disease begins.

Acupuncturists insert needles into specified points along meridian lines to influence the restore balance to the flow of qi. There are over 1,000 acupuncture points on the body.