List of famous people in alternative medicine

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

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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.
Wooster Beech - founded Eclectic Medicine.
Dan Bensky - American TCM practitioner, osteopathic physician, and co-author of popular English language books on the Chinese herbal materia 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.

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.
Benjamin Colby - wrote the book, A Guide to Health, which delineated the basic practices and philosophy of Thomsonian Medicine.
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.
Ellen Cutler - Founder of BioSET a comprehensive natural medicine system.

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

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.
George L. Engel - proposed the biopsychosocial model of health, illness and healing in 1977.

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
Bob Flaws - modern American author of traditional Chinese medicine books
Moshé Feldenkrais - founder of the Feldenkrais method.
William Fitzgerald - introduced reflexology to the West.

Theodor Hahn - a lay practitioner who advocated using the water cure along with a vegetarian diet.
Samuel Hahnemann - founded homeopathic medicine.
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.

Eunice Ingham - developed and refined the zone therapy into what is now known as reflexology.

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 - Bavarian priest who began the Nature Cure movement (1890s). Chiefly recognized for his contributions to hydrotherapy.
Dolores Krieger developed Therapeutic Touch.

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.
Joe Laracuente - Talk show host, Spent years in the South Pacific looking for cures.
Benedict Lust - Founder of naturopathic medicine in the United States. Purchased the rights to the term "naturopathy" from John Scheel.

Daniel Palmer - founded chiropractic 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.
Vincent Priessnitz - developed a system of water cures.
Louis Pasteur - found the cure to rabies

Theron Randolph - father of modern allergy medicine, founder of environmental medicine
Doris Rapp - protege of Randolph, pediatric environmental medicine practitioner and author of books on pediatric allergies.
Wilhelm Reich - founder of Orgonomy.
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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."
Ida Rolf - founder of Rolfing.

John Scheel - coined the word "naturopathy" in 1895.
Helmut W. Schimmel - founded functional medicine in Germany.
Julian Scott - modern pediatric acupuncture expert from England
Herbert Shelton - founded the Natural Hygiene movement.
Joel Shew - introduced the European system of Hydrotherapy to the United States.
Bernie Siegel - American MD and author who promotes cultivating one's attitude toward healing.
Rudolf Steiner - founded anthroposophical medicine
Andrew Taylor Still - founded osteopathy.

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.