Talk:List of forms of alternative medicine/Archive 1

Generic alternative methods of treatment
This article covers the major generic alternative methods of treatment. The difference between the article on Branches of alternative medicine and Philosophy of alternative medicine is that only the major generic alternative treatment methods are covered. So, Diet would be covered here, but all many different kinds of diets, such as vegetarianism would be covered in Philosophy of alternative medicine.

Another way of looking at it is that we want a maximum of two layers of relationships in the Branches of alternative medicine article. Specific kinds of diets and exercise are not listed, so as to avoid too many layers of relationships. -- John Gohde 03:26, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy?
Why in the world would CBT be listed as a branch of alternative medicine? Every psychology class I've ever had has mentioned it as one of the major schools of therapy, and as the school that's generally most effective for treating depression. That sounds about as mainstream as it gets, unless for some reason you consider psychotherapy in general to be "alternative medicine." Penelope D 01:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)


 * because the author of this list was trying to increase the credibilty of alt med.Geni 01:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Seems likely. It also used to include physiotherapy as a branch of "alternative medicine", which we eventually managed to get removed. I have removed CBT from the list. --Daveb 07:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

RfC: Mass removal of "Category:Alternative medicine" from most articles
I have started an RfC: RfC: Mass removal of "Category:Alternative medicine" from most articles. Please comment on this important subject. -- Fyslee / talk 16:44, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm replying with this to everywhere Fyslee has put this request, though you are of course welcome to comment on what he's created.  I need to write where he has put this because the title of this thing, started without Fyslee bothering to talk to me about it at all on my talk page, is inaccurate because as I would have told him if he asked, all I'm doing is moving things into the subcategories, (where they should be) which are still in the category. The reason I'm doing this is because at the top of the page it says (the bolding is the page's, not mine, and it's also in a red box This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should list very few, if any, article pages directly and should mainly contain subcategories. So I did what it said. Controversial and shocking "mass deletion" eh?:):):):):) Sticky Parkin 14:28, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Merge data
Merge data from List of branches of alternative medicine to this article. Northamerica1000 (talk) 09:43, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

branches of alternative medicine
I think this list looks like modalities of alternative medicine, not branches. Traditional Chinese medicine is a branch. Acupressure is a modality. Thoughts? heidimo 04:43, 1 May 2004 (UTC)


 * The original wording was forms of alternative medicine. I have been forcing it be branches of alternative medicine as a word play in order to model it after conventional medicine.  Medicine talks about the branches of medicine.  Thus, so should alternative medicine in my opinion. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 05:13, 1 May 2004 (UTC)


 * I like forms better than branches personally. Branches seems to suggest a common origin, and 'alternative medicine' is sort of a catch-all category for a lot of disciplines, many of which have little in common with each other. --Eloil 15:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
 * So the current wording is to make it sound more like medicine? That would be an outright NPOV, SOAP, and FRINGE violation. Shall we change it back? --Ronz (talk) 18:14, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Change name back to List of forms of...
Per Talk:List_of_branches_of_alternative_medicine, the current title is an outright WP:FRINGE and WP:NPOV violation. --Ronz (talk) 22:23, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Done. --Ronz (talk) 15:09, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Revert of Nasya, Tarpana, and Vamana
I had mentioned therapies like Nasya Tarpana and Vamana with links to its pages, and it was reverted. I don’t see a reasonIfidont (talk) 16:54, 8 September 2021 (UTC)