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A treatment approach developed in modern day France, derived from the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture, auriculotherapy uses stimulation of the external ear to alleviate conditions. Practitioners believe that the various parts of the body are "mapped" on the external ear similar to the way reflexologists find a mapping of body parts in the feet and hands. Stimulation of the ear at locations corresponding to body parts is thought to have a beneficial effect on those organs. Each body organ, area, and function has been mapped so a wide variety of problems can be treated. A few of these are listed below, while almost any condition could also have been included

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Homeopathy is probably the most difficult of the mainstream alternative methods of healing for conventional doctors to understand. It was derived empirically by Samuel Hahnemann who discovered that a substance, which causes the symptoms of an illness, when given in a small dose acts as a trigger to intensify the healing processes that the body's immune system has already begun.

Doctors are not scientists. They like to imagine they are scientists, but really they are clinicians. The real mode of action of most medicines prescribed by conventional doctors are not fully understood by those doctors. Nevertheless, doctors have their explanations and they dream that this makes them scientists. The problem conventional medicine has with homeopathy (aside from the fact that it is competition) is that no explanation so far has been satisfying. Homeopaths themselves are less concerned with explanation and more concerned with results.

Homeopaths share with doctors who practice nutritional medicine the point of view that merely suppressing symptoms with drugs in no way goes to the heart of a health problem and that until one deals with the actual imbalance which produced the symptom in the first place, the disease process will continue to press for expression. Health problems may seem to disappear after drug administration, but the imbalance may appear in a new form.