Some specific types of functional medicine are:
- Aromatherapy
- Cell therapy
- Chelation
- Colon therapy
- Detoxing
- Environmental medicine
- Enzyme therapy
- Fasting
- Flower remedies
- Herbs
- Hydrotherapy
- Juice therapy
- Light therapy
- Naturopathic medicine
- Oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, ozone, and hyperbaric therapies
- Raw milk
- Treatment of food allergies
Instructions: 1. Find and summarize research articles in a peer-reviewed source about a successful functional therapy by answering the following question: a. What is the therapy? b. How is the therapy used for illness prevention, health promotion, and heath restoration? c. Give an example of how this therapy can empower patients? d. Identify the actions you can take to work with patients who use functional medicine and safeguard a patient’s rights that choose to use this therapy. e. What are some of the limitations of this therapy? Include any other pertinent information. 2. This assignment should be 1-2 pages, including: title page, according to APA Writing Style.
