Category: C

Polygraph expert who advocated the idea that plants were sensitive to human thoughts. Backster moved from his work with the Central Intelligence Agency to become director of a Polygraph Institute and then founder of the Cleve Backster School of Lie Detection in New York City. In the late 1960s he conducted a series of experiments…

A whole medical system practiced by holders of M.D. (medical doctor) or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy) degrees and by their allied health professionals, such as physical therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses. Other terms for conventional medicine include allopathy; Western, mainstream, and orthodox medicine; and biomedicine.  

A clinical study that includes a comparison (control) group. The comparison group receives a placebo, another treatment, or no treatment at all.  

A plant of the Cruciferae family which has flowers of four petals arranged in a cross-like formation.  

Plant material that has not undergone any material elaboration or separation into constituents.  

Increases the production of white blood cells (which help defend the body against infection).  

Promotes healing by increasing the regeneration of skin cells and the formation of scar tissue.  

Of long duration, involving very slow changes. It does not usually resolve itself without some kind of healing intervention.  

Stimulates the secretion and release of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum.  

Inflammation of the intestines due to colibacilli.