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This is a list of people in alternative medicine who are notable for developing, founding, inventing, promoting, practicing, marketing, commentating or researching on alternative medicine.

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  • Albert Abrams - inventor of Electronic Reactions of Abrams "technology", dynomizer, oscilloclast and radioclast.
  • F. Matthias Alexander - founder of the Alexander Technique, a movement retraining process.
  • Guillermo Arévalo Valera - Shipibo writer, vegetalista, and exponent of Amazonian traditional medicine

    • B

  • Edward Bach - Founder of flower essence therapy and the Bach flower remedies.
  • William Horatio Bates - Founder of the Bates Method alternative approach to eyesight improvement.
  • Henry G. Bieler - American physician and author of Food is Your Best Medicine, known for diet-based healing and treatment of Hollywood celebrities.
  • Paul Bragg - Known for the Bragg Health Crusades, the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, deep breathing, water fasts, organic foods, juicing and listening to one's body.

    • C

  • Charaka - One of the founders of Ayurveda.
  • Deepak Chopra - Endocrinologist and Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, author of popular books on health and spirituality.
  • Nicholas Culpeper - English physician, author of the early seventeenth century Culpeper's Herbal.

    • E

  • Mary Baker Eddy - Founder of Christian Science and its readvocacy of Christian healing.

    • F

  • Moshé Feldenkrais - Founder of the Feldenkrais method.

    • G

  • Sylvester Graham - Known for Graham Crackers and founded Grahamism.
  • Stanislav Grof - One of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and founder of Holotropic Breathwork.

    • H

  • Samuel Hahnemann - Founded homeopathy.
  • Michael Harner - Synthesized shamanic beliefs and practices from all over the world into a system now known as neoshamanism.
  • Gustav Hemwall - Prolotherapy injection proponent.

    • J

  • Adolf Just - Late 19th/Early 20th century German naturopath. Advocate for the "Nature Cure" movement.

    • K

  • John Harvey Kellogg - Promoter of colon therapy at the Battle Creek Sanatorium in Battle Creek, Michigan.
  • Will Keith Kellogg - Inventor of corn flakes in 1894 and manager of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
  • Sebastian Kneipp - Bavarian priest who began the Nature Cure movement (1890s). Chiefly known for his contributions to hydrotherapy.
  • Louis Kuhne - Promoter of hydrotherapy, especially hip and sitz baths.

    • L

  • George Lewith - UK advocate for alternative medicine and professor at Southampton University.
  • Karl Axel Lind - Founder of Full-body reflexology.
  • Pehr Henrik Ling - Swedish pioneer of physical education. Falsely credited as the Father of Swedish Massage (that credit goes to Johann Georg Mezger).
  • Benedict Lust - Founder of naturopathic medicine in the United States. Purchased the rights to the term "naturopathy" from John Scheel.

    • M

  • Maria Sabina - Mexican healer, mystic leader of Mazatec people, curandero specializing in the native psilocybe mushrooms.
  • Caroline Myss - American medical intuitive, mystic and author.

    • N

  • Devi Nambudripad - Founder of NAET, controversial allergy treatment.

    • O

  • Leonard Orr - Developed Rebirthing.
  • David Orme-Johnson - Researcher and proponent of Transcendental Meditation technique.

    • P

  • Daniel Palmer - Founder of chiropractic.
  • B. J. Palmer - Son of D.D. Palmer and known as the "developer" of chiropractic.
  • Linus Pauling - Coined the term "orthomolecular medicine," the controversial use of Vitamin C and other megavitamin therapies. Pauling was however not a general supporter of alternative medicine.
  • Fritz Perls - Founder of Gestalt Therapy.
  • Vincent Priessnitz - One of the founders of hydrotherapy.
  • Partap Chauhan - Indian Ayurvedic doctor and the pioneer of online Ayurvedic medicine.

    • R

  • Wilhelm Reich - Founder of Orgonomy.
  • Ida P. Rolf - Founder of Rolfing Structural Integration, the first bodywork that attempted to change posture.

    • S

  • Charlotte Selver - Introduced the concept of sensory awareness for movement education and healing, which influenced many health disciplines during the Human Potential Movement.
  • Herbert Shelton - Founded the Natural Hygiene movement.
  • Bernie Siegel - American MD and author who promotes cultivating one's attitude toward healing.
  • Rudolf Steiner - Founded anthroposophical medicine.
  • Andrew Taylor Still - Founded osteopathy, a manual therapy practice.

    • T

  • Samuel Thomson - 19th century herbalist, founded Thomsonian Medicine.
  • Mabel Todd - Founded Ideokinesis, a form of somatic education, in the 1930s.
  • Mohammad Ali Taheri - founder of two complementary medicines Faradarmani and Psymentology.

    • U

  • Dana Ullman - Proponent of Homeopathy in the United States
  • Mikao Usui - Founded Reiki during the early twentieth century in Japan.

    • W

  • Andrew Weil - Founder of Integrative Medicine and author.
  • J. R. Worsley - Founder of Five Elements school of acupuncture.
  • Frances Wright - Active in the American Popular Health Movement of the 1830s and 40s.
  • P. K. Warrier - Indian Ayurvedic physician who received Padma Bhushan in 2010.

    • Y

  • Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) - Historically credited as the founder of traditional Chinese medicine.
  • Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Founder of Transcendental Meditation.

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