Dan Bensky - American TCM and Craniosacral practitioner and author of a popular English language version of the Chinese herbalmateria medica.
Paul Bragg - known for the Bragg Health Crusades, the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, deep breathing, water fasts, organic foods, drinking water, juicing, exercise and listening to one's body.
Emanuel Bronner - aka "Dr. Bronner," master soap-maker known for eccentric messages on labels for natural soaps and other health products.
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Carlos Castaneda - author and philosopher. One of his ideas is that dreaming can be cultivated as a way to refine one's awareness to a point where extraordinary feats of perception can be achieved.
Cheng Man-ch'ing - traditional Chinese physician and the first well-known teacher to offer his own version of T'ai Chi Ch'uan in the West.
Mantak Chia - claimed healer and author of books on Taoism, Taoist sexuality and Tai Chi ChuanT'ai Chi Ch'uan commonly known as T'ai Chi or Taiji (literally supreme ultimate fist''. is a nei chia ("internal") Chinese martial art which is known for the claims of health and longevity benefits made by its practitioners and in some recent medical stud
Hulda Regehr Clark - wrote a series of books including The Cure for all Diseases, advocating extreme dietary practices and "zapping" of parasites.
Benjamin Colby - wrote the book, A Guide to Health, which delineated the basic practices and philosophy of Thomsonian Medicine.
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Eugene V. DebsEugene Victor Debs ( November 5, 1855 October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader and five-time Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States. Rise to prominence Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana (where he lived most of, Socialist leader and U.S. Presidential candidate, died as a result of "nature cure" treatments at Lindlahr Sanitarium outside Chicago, IllinoisThis article is about the city, for other uses of the term see Chicago (disambiguation : Hog butcher for the world,Tool maker, stacker of wheat,Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;Stormy, husky, brawling,City of the big shoulders. Carl.
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Mary Baker EddyMary Morse Baker better known as Mary Baker Eddy ( July 16, 1821 December 3, 1910) founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879. She was born in Bow, New Hampshire and raised a Congregationalist, though she rebelled against teachings like predestinatio - founder of Christian Science and its readvocacy of Christian healing, thereby also reawakening 20th-century interest in the subject in more mainstream denominations as well as in certain more unrestrictive New AgeNew Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. This New Age movement is particularly concerned with spiritual exploration, holistic medicine, and mysticism, yet no rigid boundaries actually exist offshoots.
George L. Engel - proposed the biopsychosocial model of health, illness and healing in 1977.
Bob Flaws - modern American author of traditional Chinese medicine books
Moshe Feldenkrais - founder of the FeldenkraisThe Feldenkrais method is an educational system trying to give individuals a greater functional awareness of the self. The method is based on the assumption that the body is the primary vehicle for learning in the human organism. Feldenkrais method is oft MethodŽ.
William Fitzgerald - introduced reflexology to the West.
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Sylvester Graham - was known for his graham crackers and founded Grahamism.
Michael Harner - synthesized shamanic beliefs and practices from all over the world into a system now known as neoshamanism .
Joseph Heller - Student of Ida Rolf, first president of the Rolf Institute and founder of Hellerwork Structural Integration. (This JH is not, nor is he related to, the author to which his name here is erroneously linked.)
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Eunice Ingham - developed and refined the zone therapy into what is now known as reflexology.
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Isaac Jennings - cofounded a healing system called Orthopathy.
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Ted Kaptchuk - author of The Web That Has no Weaver, a popular introductory book on traditional Chinese medicine
John Harvey Kellogg - promoter of colon therapy at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan.
Will Keith Kellogg - inventor of corn flakes in 1894 and manger of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Sebastian Kneipp - a priest who asked for a different life, not for better pills.
Jack LaLanne - For over 30 years, Jack promoted exercise on television. He is also famous for a series of well-publicized feats of strength that always took place on his birthday.
Benedict Lust - purchased the rights to the term "naturopathy" from John Scheel.
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Giovanni Maciocia - author of popular modern textbooks on traditional Chinese medicine.
Linus Pauling - established a new discipline called orthomolecular medicine and promoted the use of Vitamin C to cure cancer. Pauling was however not a general supporter of alternative medicine.
Royal Rife - Invented an optical microscope with 31,000 times magnification in 1933. Worked with pleomorphic microbes in various media. Invented a plasma ray device that could be used to devitalize microbes called the Beam Ray. Used the Beam Ray in a USC clinic at La Jolla CA in 1934 to cure 16 cancer patients.
Arnold Rikli - a lay practitioner who added the use of air and sunlight to the water cure. He is known for having said: "Water is good; air is better, but light is best of all."
Frances Wright - was active in the American Popular Health Movement of the 1830's and '40s.
Wu Chien-ch'üan - famous T'ai Chi Ch'uan teacher, one of the first to openly promote and teach T'ai Chi for the public health in early 20th century Beijing.
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Yang Ch'eng-fu - perhaps the most famous T'ai Chi Ch'uan teacher ever, among the first to openly teach and promote T'ai Chi for public health.
Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) - culture hero historically credited as the founder of traditional Chinese medicine.