therap-, -therapeutic[s], -therapeutically, -therapy, -therapies, -therapist +

1. Treatment of disease by means of light rays.
2. In dermatology, ultraviolet light therapy.

1. The use of air and water, at varying temperatures, to treat disorders of the bodily limbs.
2. The treatment of disease with the application, at different temperatures and by different methods, of both air and water.

Treatment of a disease or an illness with compressed (or rarefied) air.

Treatment of disease by fresh air, by air of different degrees of pressure or rarity, or by air medicated in various ways.

Treatment with systematic feeding; dietetic treatment.

1. The administration of large amounts of alkali in the treatment of peptic ulcers and hyperchlorhydria.
2. Therapeutic use of alkali for local or systemic effect.

Considered an obsolete term for the treatment of an ailment with sand baths.

Treatment by increasing doses.

The treatment of an ailment with bee venom.

A term used for treatment of illness and maintenance of general physical health using essential oils distilled from such plants as camomile, camphor, peppermint, rosemary, lavender, and eucalyptus.

Such treatments were known in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and other civilizations, while early Arabian physicians developed the distillation of aromatic oils through experiments in alchemy.

The term aromatherapy derives from the writings of the French chemist Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, whose book Aromatherpie was published in 1928. Aromatherapy is more than simply a department of herbalism, since it postulates subtle energies of aromatic plants related to life force, which can be correlated with ancient Chinese concepts of Yin and Yang.

Treatment of disease with arsenic.

Treatment of disease by the administration of gold salts; also, chrysotherapy.

The treatment of certain conditions, such as dermatoses, by injection of the patient’s own blood serum; also autotherapy.

1. The spontaneous cure of a disease; self cure.
2. The treatment of a disease with filtrates from a patient’s secretions.
3. Treatment of one’s own infirmity (illness).

Treatment of disease by introducing bacteria into the system.