Definitions
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- noun Medical therapy involving exposure to sunlight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Treatment of disease by means of sunlight: a form of phototherapy.
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- noun Any
medical therapy byexposure tolight .
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- noun therapeutic exposure to sunlight
Etymologies
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Examples
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The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human blood even when the end justified the means, preferring, in their natural order, heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.
Ulysses 2003
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Those therapies are herbs and diet, breathing and exercise, acupuncture, massage, and heliotherapy sunlight therapy.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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In France, Sweden and the Soviet Union, such cures as electro-acupuncture, herbs, fasting, nutrition, exercise, massage and heliotherapy have become quite popular as the New Medicine takes root there.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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American medical schools are not preparing doctors with sufficient background in nutrition, heliotherapy, massage and other traditional methods which are becoming part and parcel of medical training elsewhere in the world.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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With its unique blend of physical and mental regimens and its equal emphasis on theory and practice, Taoism has come to include such diverse elements as alchemy, deep breathing, calisthenics, sexual disciplines, herbal medicine, diet, heliotherapy, and much more.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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The key factor in heliotherapy is the invisible ultraviolet band, and the key receptor is the retina.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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The Tao Tsang Treasury of Tao, compiled over 2,000 years ago, contains numerous references to heliotherapy, which it refers to as ‘the method of administering sunbeams’.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human blood even when the end justified the means, preferring, in their natural order, heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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As milk and other foods were supplemented with vitamin D, heliotherapy faded, and its decline was greatly enhanced by the fear of acquiring skin cancer.
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Sunlight (heliotherapy) was often a part of healing and was used to treat many disorders, such as tuberculosis, rickets in children and war wounds.
qms commented on the word heliotherapy
The nurses are unctuous and syrupy,
Their chatter theatrically chirrupy
To make you feel sure
They’ll manage your cure
With doses of heliotherapy.
October 8, 2018