List of famous people in alternative medicine

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Famous people in alternative medicine provides a master list of the biographical articles included in the alternative medicine (CAM) series of articles.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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F. Matthias Alexander - founder of the Alexander Technique

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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.
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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Charaka - is one of the founders of Ayurveda.
Mantak Chia - claimed healer and author of books on "Taoist sexuality".
Hulda Regehr Clark - wrote a series of books including The Cure for all Diseases, advocating extreme dietary practices and "zapping" of parasites.
Dr. Deepak Chopra - Endocrinologist and Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, who writes popular books on health and spirituality.
Nicholas Culpeper - an English physician of the early 17th century who left to future generations a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.

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Dr. Lorraine Day - major marketer of a 10 step alternative cure for cancer, and critic of conventional medicine.
Dr. Desh Bandhu Bajpai, Inventor Electro-tridosha-graphy ETG

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Mary Baker Eddy - 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 Age offshoots.

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Moshé Feldenkrais - founder of the Feldenkrais method.
William Fitzgerald - introduced reflexology to the West.

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Sylvester Graham - was known for his graham crackers and founded Grahamism.

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Samuel Hahnemann - founded homeopathic medicine.
Michael Harner - synthesized shamanic beliefs and practices from all over the world into a system now known as neoshamanism.

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Bernard Jensen - leading American iridologist

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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 manager of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Sebastian Kneipp - Bavarian priest who began the Nature Cure movement (1890s). Chiefly recognized for his contributions to hydrotherapy.

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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 - Founder of naturopathic medicine in the United States. Purchased the rights to the term "naturopathy" from John Scheel.

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Devi Nambudripad - founder of NAET, controversial allergy treatment

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Leonard Orr - developed Rebirthing.

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Daniel Palmer - founder of chiropractic.
B. J. Palmer - son of D.D. Palmer and known as the "developer" of chiropractic.
Linus Pauling - established a new discipline called orthomolecular medicine and advocated the use of Vitamin C to prevent or treat viral respiratory diseases, Lipoprotein(a) associated atherosclerosis, and cancer, along with several other megavitamin therapies for mental illness. Pauling was however not a general supporter of alternative medicine.
Vincent Priessnitz - developed a system of water cures.

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Theron Randolph - father of modern allergy medicine, founder of environmental medicine
Wilhelm Reich - founder of Orgonomy.
Royal Rife

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Herbert Shelton - founded the Natural Hygiene movement.
Bernie Siegel - American MD and author who promotes cultivating one's attitude toward healing.
Rudolf Steiner - founded anthroposophical medicine
Andrew Taylor Still - founded osteopathy.

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Samuel Thompson - founded Thomsonianism.
Russell Trall - founded the New York College of Hygieo-Therapy.

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Mikao Usui - founded Reiki during the early 20th century in Japan.

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Andrew Weil - founder of Integrative Medicine and author of many modern books on alternative medicine.
J.R. Worsley - founder of Five Elements school of acupuncture.
Frances Wright - was active in the American Popular Health Movement of the 1830's and '40s.