Articles about Holistic Medicine
For Personalized Bodywork By Jenny Peterson Charleston Mobile Massage, led by Natalie Nelson, brings therapeutic, customized bodywork directly to clients across the Lowcountry, offering mobile sessions in clients’ homes, apartment and retirement communities, condos or hotels. Natalie founded the business three years ago with a mission to provide a wide range of wellness modalities tailored … Read more
Natural remedies that have been around for thousands of years are still in use today. In many cases, these “ancient health secrets” are just as effective as the remedies provided in the modern health care environment. The Roots of Eastern Medicine Since ancient times, Eastern medicine has approached illness or disease by treating the root … Read more
Introduced to the United States during the Nixon era, acupuncture was initially viewed as a fringe modality in American health care. For two decades, it remained a niche practice, primarily due to language barriers faced by Chinese practitioners. However, as more Americans trained in this ancient art, acupuncture spread and gained acceptance. Steeped in thousands … Read more
Before we can define the magic that Amanda McNabb, B.U.S., D.C., N.M.D., is performing over at Charleston Health, we need to define a term that is often bandied about rather carelessly these days: holistic medicine. Holistic medicine is rooted in healing a patient while considering the entirety of their person —balancing their physical, mental, spiritual … Read more
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have concluded a clinical study that found the use of frankincense, a resin that comes from the Boswellia tree and has been used for thousands of years in medicine, helps to decrease the proliferation of cancer cells in patients with metastatic breast cancer. Many patients die from … Read more
Though the technology surrounding the use of platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, has been around since the 1980s and used for medical applications such as joint healing, the aesthetics industry has championed this minimally invasive modality for hair restoration and hair loss prevention for a decade. A less costly, less invasive prospect than surgical hair transplantation, … Read more