Definitions of Alternative Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Adjunctive Medicine - Part 5

diagnostic acupressure (acupressure diagnosis, acupuncture diagnosis): Procedure whose postulate is that digitally "stimulating" key "diagnostic acupuncture points" can reveal a problem's source. (See "kyo-jitsu" and "oriental channel diagnosis.")

Diamond Approach (Diamond Approach to inner realization): Variation of "the Work" that borrows from depth psychology (which Freudian and Jungian systems of psychoanalysis exemplify). The expression "the Work" refers to the (purported) endeavor to retrieve "essence": one's "true nature" or "true master," the "force of life." Work of A.H. Almaas.

direct moxabustion (direct moxibustion, festering moxibustion, open moxibustion, scarring moxibustion): Form of moxabustion that requires placing small cones of moxa (a dried herb) on specific acupoints and burning the cones almost to the skin.

distant pulse diagnosis: Form of remote diagnosis that is a variation of Nadi Vigyan (pulse diagnosis). The practitioner places his or her fingers on someone's wrist, thinks of someone else, and allegedly diagnoses the latter person.

Do-In [dough-in] (Dao-In, Tao-In, Taoist Conducting and Attuning Energy Practice, Taoist yoga, Taoist hatha yoga, Tao Yin): Ancient system of stretching, bodily postures, and movements, comparable to hatha yoga. Michio Kushi (see "macrobiotics") introduced Do-In in the United States in 1968. Its theory posits "Chi energy flow" and the "energy meridians" of acupuncture and shiatsu. Apparently, it also posits a human ability to absorb "nutrition" from the air and from "surrounding energy." With each Do-In posture, one supposedly inhales ki ("life source energy") and exhales jaki ("harmful toxins"). Although Do-In is a discipline of self-healing, its "ultimate goal" is "spiritual harmony" with the universe.

dowsing (divining, questing, water witching): Purported means of gaining insight into the diagnosis and treatment of physical and emotional health problems (see "radiesthesia."). It encompasses forms of remote diagnosis: one involving a recent photograph of the subject, another a stand-in ("proxy") for the subject. Elementary dowsing tools include the forked branch (divining rod) and the pendulum. Dowsing's postulate is that human thoughts "transcend" human bodies, species, and spacetime as usually conceived.

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