Healing arts

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The Healing Arts include all of the Health Sciences and Alternative Medicine, as well as a host of traditional practices aimed to cure disease, heal injury and promote wellness.

Scope of the Healing Arts

Practices that are aimed to heal include non-invasive physical manipulations such as massage, the adjustments of the chiropracter. Ingestion of foods and herbs, and the ingestion of medicines.

Invasive practices in the healing arts includes surgery as practiced by physicians licensed in Medicine, but are not limited to these operations. Traditional healers in Ju Ju

History of the Healing Arts