Famous People in Alternative Medicine

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1. F. Matthias Alexander - founder of the Alexander Technique
2. Edward Bach - founder of flower essence therapy and the Bach flower remedies.
3. William Horatio Bates - founder of the Bates Method alternative approach to eyesight improvement.
4. Wooster Beech - founded Eclectic Medicine.
5. Dan Bensky - American TCM practitioner, osteopathic physician, and co-author of popular English language books on the Chinese herbal materia medica.
6. 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.
7. Emanuel Bronner - aka "Dr. Bronner," master soap-maker known for eccentric messages on labels for natural soaps and other health products.
8. Charaka - is one of the founders of Ayurveda.
9. Mantak Chia - claimed healer and author of books on "Taoist sexuality".
10. Hulda Regehr Clark - wrote a series of books including The Cure for all Diseases, advocating extreme dietary practices and "zapping" of parasites.
11. Benjamin Colby - wrote the book, A Guide to Health, which delineated the basic practices and philosophy of Thomsonian Medicine.
12. Dr. Deepak Chopra - Endocrinologist and Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, who writes popular books on health and spirituality.
13. Nicholas Culpeper - an English physician of the early 17th century who left to future generations a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.
14. Ellen Cutler - Founder of BioSET a comprehensive natural medicine system.
15. Dr. Lorraine Day - major marketer of a 10 step alternative cure for cancer, and critic of conventional medicine.
16. Dr. Desh Bandhu Bajpai, Inventor Electro-tridosha-graphy ETG
17. 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.
18. George L. Engel - proposed the biopsychosocial model of health, illness and healing in 1977.
19. Farid al Afuw al Fattah - initiator of IRECA method on how to use Cosmic Energy for therapeutic purposes at the beginning of the 19th century in Anatolia
20. Bob Flaws - modern American author of traditional Chinese medicine books
21. Moshé Feldenkrais - founder of the Feldenkrais method.
22. William Fitzgerald - introduced reflexology to the West.
23. Sylvester Graham - was known for his graham crackers and founded Grahamism.
24. George Goodheart - founded applied kinesiology in 1964.
25. Theodor Hahn - a lay practitioner who advocated using the water cure along with a vegetarian diet.
26. Samuel Hahnemann - founded homeopathic medicine.
27. Michael Harner - synthesized shamanic beliefs and practices from all over the world into a system now known as neoshamanism.
28. Joseph Heller - student of Ida Rolf (first president of the Rolf Institute) and founder of Hellerwork Structural Integration.
29. Eunice Ingham - developed and refined the zone therapy into what is now known as reflexology.
30. Isaac Jennings - co-founded a healing system called Orthopathy.
31. Bernard Jensen - leading American iridologist
32. Ted Kaptchuk - author of The Web That Has no Weaver, a popular introductory book on traditional Chinese medicine
33. John Harvey Kellogg - promoter of colon therapy at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan.
34. Will Keith Kellogg - inventor of corn flakes in 1894 and manager of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
35. Sebastian Kneipp - Bavarian priest who began the Nature Cure movement (1890s). Chiefly recognized for his contributions to hydrotherapy.
36. Dolores Krieger developed Therapeutic Touch.
37. 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.
38. Joe Laracuente - Talk show host, Spent years in the South Pacific looking for cures.
39. Benedict Lust - Founder of naturopathic medicine in the United States. Purchased the rights to the term "naturopathy" from John Scheel.
40. Devi Nambudripad - founder of NAET, controversial allergy treatment
41. Paul Nogier - French founder of Auriculotherapy
42. Leonard Orr - developed Rebirthing.
43. Daniel Palmer - founded chiropractic medicine.
44. 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.
45. Vincent Priessnitz - developed a system of water cures.
46. Louis Pasteur - found the cure to rabies
47. Theron Randolph - father of modern allergy medicine, founder of environmental medicine
48. Doris Rapp - protege of Randolph, pediatric environmental medicine practitioner and author of books on pediatric allergies.
49. Wilhelm Reich - founder of Orgonomy.
50. Royal Rife
51. 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."
52. Ida Rolf - founder of Rolfing.
53. John Scheel - coined the word "naturopathy" in 1895.
54. Helmut W. Schimmel - founded functional medicine in Germany.
55. Julian Scott - modern pediatric acupuncture expert from England
56. Herbert Shelton - founded the Natural Hygiene movement.
57. Joel Shew - introduced the European system of Hydrotherapy to the United States.
58. Bernie Siegel - American MD and author who promotes cultivating one's attitude toward healing.
59. Rudolf Steiner - founded anthroposophical medicine
60. Andrew Taylor Still - founded osteopathy.
61. Richard Tan - modern popular charismatic acupuncture teacher
62. Samuel Thompson - founded Thomsonianism.
63. Russell Trall - founded the New York College of Hygieo-Therapy.
64. John Upledger - principal proponent of craniosacral therapy.
65. Mikao Usui - founded Reiki during the early 20th century in Japan.
66. Andrew Weil - founder of Integrative Medicine and author of many modern books on alternative medicine.
67. J.R. Worsley - founder of Five Elements school of acupuncture.
68. Frances Wright - was active in the American Popular Health Movement of the 1830's and '40s.
69. Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) - culture hero historically credited as the founder of traditional Chinese medicine.
70. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - the founder of Transcendental Meditation.
71. Elder Zhang Guo - Chinese alchemist.