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Make a water filter 31 Alternative medicines

Do you give much thought to clean water? No, you simply open the tap and get Alternative medicine is any practice that has the same healing effect as a
clean water to use. But have you ever thought that you can filter muddy water medicine but does not use any bio-medicine.
and clean it yourself.
Can you name these alternative medicine practices and therapies?

1. In this therapy five needles are inserted at specific points
You will need: of the body to regulate the flow of energy and improve

• gravel health.
dirty muddy
• sand water 2. It is an ancient medical science based in India. It believes that humans
• blotting paper gravel are made of five elements – air, fire, water, space and earth and it is

• clean flower pot sand important to balance these five elements for good health and growth.
blotting paper
• transparent jug
3. This therapy uses ‘essential oils’ from different plants
• pouring jug to treat emotional disorders such as stress and anxiety.
filtered water

4. The art of healing by the application of natural and

Procedure: artificial magnets to the diseased parts of the human
body.
• Put blotting paper, then sand and finally gravel in a clean flower pot.
5. The therapy is described as palm healing in which a practitioner places
• Place the flower pot in a large transparent container so that the filtered
water can drip through into the transparent jug. hands lightly on or over a patient’s body to speed up the patient’s process
of healing.
• Collect muddy water in a jar.

• Pour the muddy water into the flower pot as shown in the picture above. 6. A method of treating people who are sick or in pain by

• Observe the colour of the water dripping out at the bottom of the pot into pushing and moving bones in the spine.
the transparent container.

7. This form of treatment involves the use of plants and herbs to cure almost
Find out where did the dirt go? Why did clean water come out? Take the
filter apart and try to find out the dirt and mud of the water with which you all major diseases. It was introduced in India by the Arabs.
started this activity.

Try arranging the layers in a different order and compare the colour 8. A famous Chinese therapy in which pressure is applied
of the filtered water. at specific points of the body to relieve body aches and
pains.

ayurveda reiki acupressure aromatherapy
acupuncture magnetotherapy unani chiropractic

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