healing arts
Curative medical disciplines
Healing arts is a broad term for practices aimed at treating illness and promoting health.
It encompasses conventional medicine but often emphasizes alternative or complementary approaches—acupuncture, massage therapy, herbalism, energy work.
The phrase suggests medicine as craft or calling rather than pure science: She studied the healing arts after her own recovery from chronic illness.
- meditationFocused attention practice
- AyurvedaTraditional Hindu healing practice
- traditional Chinese medicineAncient Eastern healing system
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- homeopathyDiluted-substance alternative medicine
reflexology · ancient medicine · folk remedy · craniosacral therapy · functional medicine · Asclepius · qigong · breathwork · balance · naturopathy · reiki · spiritual counseling · herbalism · tai chi · alternative medicine · shaman · laying on hands · curative
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- alternative medicineacupuncture, acupressure, Ayurveda, ayurveda, homeopathy
- ancient medicinephysicians, healers, Hippocratic Oath, Hippocratic oath, four humors
- medical historyHippocrates, germ theory, bloodletting, Galen, four humors
- Ninjaninja, shinobi, kunoichi, ninjutsu, shuriken
- herbal medicineherbal medicine, herbal remedies, herbal remedy, herbal tea, herbal teas
healing artsarts of war
Military strategies and techniques
martial arts · torture · poisoning · warfare · harming
healing artsdark arts
Malevolent supernatural practices
black magic · cursing · necromancy · cruelty · sadism
healing artsaffliction
Cause of ongoing distress
torture · torment · cruelty · inflicting pain · persecution