Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine can be defined as those health treatment
practices that are used in place of, or in addition to, the practice
of traditional medicine. The conventional use of the word is
debatable, but in broad terms, connotes the standard, wide-spread
medical practices being used in the United States and Western Europe
today, based on the latest scientific studies and technologies
available. The definition of alternative medicine, and the view of
what is considered mainstream or conventional medicine, are both
changing. A few years ago, some treatments that are now considered
mainstream were considered "quackery,?(i.e. chiropractic, biofeedback,
and acupuncture). Mainstream medicine now acknowledges that
biofeedback, meditation, acupuncture, and hypnosis work as
complementary treatments.

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Relevant Pages

  • Alternative medicines draw fire
    ... AFTER decades of fighting for credibility within mainstream medicine, ... medicine (CAM) industry of quackery and trickery. ... Shapiro writes in her new book, Suckers: How Alternative Medicine ... which CAM treatments work, and popular science author Dr Simon Singh, ...
    (misc.health.alternative)
  • Regulating traditional medicine
    ... The use of traditional and complementary medicine is becoming more ... issues surrounding such practices. ... TRADITIONAL and complementary medicine (T/CM) is used by many people ... conscious and have adopted a proactive approach to their own health by ...
    (misc.health.alternative)
  • Re: Another study shows supplements dont fulfil commmon claims
    ... I said "don't work better than placebo". ... explanatory of the phenomenon of alternaitve medicine, ... AND after standard medicine treatments - ... of all alternative medicine is, I repeat, an insult to ...
    (misc.health.alternative)
  • Re: A job for life and source of income
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    (soc.religion.bahai)
  • Re: The sky is falling
    ... Other practices will not be proved effective because they don't do ... unlike what real medicine has accomplished in just the past ... You won't admit that traditional medicine kills people? ... But if you get the right stuff and the right information, you don't end up with a lot of damage that "real" medicine is famous for (like liver damage). ...
    (rec.autos.makers.chrysler)