From acupuncture to herbal treatments to mind-body techniques and religious faith, this classic nine-part series from the BBC explores the world of alternative and non-Western medicine. Each episode takes viewers inside a particular discipline—and often to a foreign country—in which a wholly unconventional approach to healing has been developed and applied. Experts in the United States, Great Britain, China, and India demonstrate and discuss their methods. Numerous case studies are featured. A BBC Production. Portions with English subtitles, 9-part series, 50 minutes each.
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The power of the human hand as a healing agent has a long and diverse history. Osteopathy and chiropractic therapy link ancient and modern theories of body structure and healing, but to a certain extent they remain outliers when it comes to mainstream medical practice. This program travels to China, Ireland, and England as it shows how a...
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“It’s the whole plant that matters,” says British medical herbalist Michael McIntyre before he prepares a fresh extract of devil’s claw root. He and his wife Annie grow a wide variety of herbs in their garden (and press them with a cleverly modified hydraulic car jack) before processing them into medicines, which Michael prescribes to pat...
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Wind, water, and fire—three essential elements of the body, according to practitioners of India’s ancient Siddha medical tradition. This program follows a young Indian woman as she undergoes treatment by a Siddha doctor for premature arthritis. Sidetracked at first by an ineffective local healer and unmoved by subsequent warnings of a mit...
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The questions sound strange at first: “Are you afraid of heights?” “Do you have a fear of cancer?” “Do you like soft-boiled eggs?” But no matter how baffling they seem to a first-time patient, they will eventually help homeopathic specialist George Vithoulkas chart a path of treatment—one designed with the individual’s overall wellbeing i...
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While a Western doctor might view high blood pressure as a diagnosis in itself, an authority in Chinese medicine will most likely see hypertension as a side issue, aiming instead to repair the “imbalance” in an afflicted patient’s body. The many differences between the two medical traditions, as well as their interesting similarities, com...
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He’s a well-established lecturer and general practitioner in the United Kingdom, but Dr. Patrick Pietroni takes an approach that is far from conventional. As founder of the British Holistic Medical Association, Pietroni has incorporated a wide range of alternative disciplines into his practice and teaching, and this film captures his fasc...
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An 86-year-old woman with osteoarthritis; a young man with severe back pain brought on by heavy lifting; a middle-aged woman with rheumatoid arthritis and a car-crash injury worsened by a sexual attack—all three are featured in this film’s alternative medicine case studies. Shot at Boston’s Lemuel Shattuck Hospital when a pilot program fo...
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Over the course of a long and productive life, Moshe Feldenkrais developed groundbreaking body-movement techniques that continue to help people today—from those who want to reduce arthritis pain to patients struggling with severe car-crash injuries. Still widely practiced over 20 years after its founder’s death, the Feldenkrais method off...
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The healing relationship between mind and body has long been the subject of debate, but with the advent of scientific medicine in the 19th century, the possibility that the mind could cause or cure illness was broadly ridiculed. Today, however, many in the medical community are coming full circle, with patients and professionals alike tur...
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