Healing arts

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. These disciplines each have associated xxx of knowledge and theoretical underpinnings, that are based on biology, magic, philosophy or religion. In most cases, the practitioner of one of the recognized healing arts is licensed, certified, or ordained in some manner within his or her community, and commits to a code of behavior that offers dedicated service to the client.

Scope of the Healing Arts

Practices that are aimed to heal include non-invasive physical manipulations such as massage, the adjustments of the chiropracter, and the talk therapy of the Freudian psychiatrist, Behavioral psychologist and clergy.

Ingestion of foods and herbs, and the ingestion of medicines are healing modalities used by many diverse disciplines within the healing arts.

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 West Africa who follow juju routinely use scarification and injections as part of their practice.