glossary of health and beauty terms

Holistic Health - This is a non-medical approach to the healing and health of the whole person that looks to combine physical and mental well-being. This philosophy of health views the environmental, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of life as intricately interwoven, and seeks to create balance by attending to all.

Holistic Medicine - General term for various forms of alternative or complementary medicine, including homeopathy, acupuncture, stress reduction, nutritional therapy and other alternative methods.

Hydrotherapies - This term refers to water therapies using jets, underwater massage and mineral baths. These treatments use physical water properties, such as a temperature and pressure, for therapeutic purposes, to stimulate blood circulation, dispel toxins and treat certain diseases.

Hypnosis - Inducing an altered state which has been compared to a state of deep meditation or transcendence in which the innate recuperative abilities of the psyche are allowed to flow more freely.