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Services and disciplines
Primary conventional medicine
Conventional medicine care provided by family medicine specialists, Chinese medicine, and acupuncture.
Medical acupuncture:
Acupuncture is based in the body’s ability to regenerate and cure itself through stimulus produced by the
insertion and manipulation of needled or other instrument in determined points in the skin. These points have
been clinically defined for therapeutic purposes.
Therapeutic massage:
Massage therapy is based on the holistic conception of the human being. It perceives illness as the breakage of
the constant flow of energy, nutrients, and wellness that guarantees the optimal health. A combination of
specialized technique’s using, the hands, elbows, and some auxiliary instruments are used to activate the body’s
blood flow and the energy needed to promote the reconstitution of the patient’s health.
Pranic Healing:
This discipline consists in the treatment of different conditions by balancing the vital energy within or
surrounding the body. This therapeutic method is based on the belief that the body has life-giving energy, which
many scientists call electromagnetic energy o bio-energy. Therapists work with the patient’s energy with the
purpose to improve his/her general health.
Botanical Medicine:
Consists in the use of plants or plant’s byproducts with curative properties for the treatment of illnesses. This
therapy has different administration forms, including tea infusions, capsules, injections, tinctures,
suppositories, compresses, baths or lotions. It is also known as herbology, or herbal remedies medicine.
Aromatherapy:
It uses the therapeutic, psychological, and physiological properties of pure essential oils through different
methods: by inhalation, diffusers, compresses, aroma-therapeutic massage, and mud poultices (in specific zones)
to obtain the adequate balance between mind, body, and spirit to achieve health.
Music Therapy:
It uses music with a therapeutic purpose. This discipline is aimed at opening communication channels through
sounds, rhythm, gestures, movement, and silence at a psychological, physical, and cognitive level. Music Therapy
is widely used to treat mental conditions, addictions, depression, and hyperactivity or hypoactivity, among
others.
Hypnosis therapy:
Medical treatment technique used in a special sleep state or active sleep where it is possible to partially
inhibit some active areas in the brain. Different from regular sleep, where the brain is inhibited in a general
manner. Hypnotherapy is used to treat emotional and physical conditions.
Naturopathic Medicine:
Medical services system based on the stimulation principles of the innate healing powers of nature and our own
bodies. Naturopathic medicine educates patients to take care of their own health. It uses botanical medicine,
homeopathy, hydrotherapy, chelation, and acupuncture, among other therapies to treat the patient’s health
conditions.
Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Group of healing techniques and methods based on traditional Chinese medicine. This healing system is comprised
of several methods such as the stimulation of acupuncture points through different techniques like needles,
laser, electricity, heat, massages (acu-pressure), magnets, bleedings, injections, auricular therapy, cranial
acupuncture, Chinese herbs, nutrition and oriental foods, oriental massage (Tuina), and exercises (Q gong,
Tai-chi).
Chiropractics:
It is based on the concept that the vital energy found in human beings travels through the spinal cord and that
any interference to the flow of energy causes a pathology that results in illness. The chiropractor, through
different spinal chord adjustment techniques, restores the normal energetic flow until the patient’s symptoms
disappear partially or completely.
Reflexology:
It’s a specialized technique that provides treatment for different health conditions through the activation of
acupressure points in hands and feet. This technique is based on the usage of body maps that identify the
acupressure points used in traditional Chinese medicine.