The Pillars of Health [Course 131]

• Introduction
• Course Description
• Testimonials

To give students a better understanding of alternative medicine, this course gives an overview of a number of approaches: manipulative (osteopathy, massage), Oriental (energy medicine, Ayurvedic medicine), naturopathic (homeopathy, aromatherapy), and psycho-educational (hypnotherapy, relaxation). The course also examines diagnostic approaches (iridology, radiesthesia).

Detailed course

• Student's guide
• Deadline
• Objectives
• Teaching method and work requirements
• 1 acknowledgement of receipt of course book
• 2 beginning the course
• 3 planning your study schedule
• 4 answering the questions
• 5 correcting your answers
• 6 exam
• 7 sending activities to the college
• Useful information
• Introduction
• Presentation of the course
• Health and health practitioners
• Health
• The health practitioner's place in today's medicine
• Revision
• Activity 1
• Manipulative approaches
• Osteopathy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Massage
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• The healing touch
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Lymphatic drainage
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Revision
• Activity 2
• Oriental approaches
• Energy medicine
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Auriculotherapy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Ayurvedic medicine
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Polarity
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Chakras and tattwas
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Reiki technique
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Reiki
• Presentation
• Principles
• Indications
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Revision
• Activity 3
• Naturopathic approaches
• Naturopathy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Phototherapy and heliotherapy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Chromotherapy
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Aromatherapy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• A few essential oils
• The floral elixirs of dr bach
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• The thirty-eight floral elixirs
• Homeopathy- biotherapies
• Presentation
• Principles
• Temperament medicine
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Nutritional therapy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Food supplements
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Phytotherapy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Revision
• Psycho-educational approaches
• Relaxation and visualization
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Spiritual healing
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Hypnotherapy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Art therapy
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Revision
• Activity 5
• Diagnostic approaches
• Iridology
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Radiesthesia
• Presentation
• Principles
• Session procedure
• Indications
• Risks
• Clinical studies
• Revision
• Activity 6
• Exam
• Instructions
• Evaluation questionnaire
• Validation form

Testimonials

"I loved this course. The annexes are great, and I know most of them by experience as I went through many cleanses and colon hydrotherapy. I am really enjoying and finding all the courses very interesting, as I am living in this direction and working with it for many years. All the material is familiar to me, so the courses are more a revision and addition of what I already know by experience. Thank you very much for your work."
Wanda Maria da Silveira Barbosa
Netherlands

"The information in this module provides a great understanding of the many facets of naturopathy; it definitely peaked my interests in many areas and promptes me to do further studies in regards to aromatherapy, reiki and TFH. Thank you for an inspiring module !"
Janice Skoreyko
Alberta

"Excellent! All of the courses so far have been very interesting!"
Terri Cormier
British Columbia

"So far I found this course the most challenging. I have learned the most from this course and look forward to the next course in the series!"
Faith Serwada
Ontario

"I have found the information and module extremely well presented and very interesting. I am really enjoying the course and learning so much."
Anne Cook
United Arab Emirates

"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this course and will benefit from this very useful background information."
David Blake
Trinidad and Tobago