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The terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine, holistic medicine, natural medicine, unorthodox medicine, fringe medicine, unconventional medicine, and new age medicine are used interchangeably as having the same meaning and are almost synonymous in most contexts. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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Promoting alternative medicine has been called dangerous and unethical. [n 11] [143] Friendly and colorful images of herbal treatments may look less threatening or dangerous when compared to conventional medicine. This is an intentional marketing strategy. [144] [145]
Complementary medicine is used in addition to conventional care. For example, if you have cancer, you can use both conventional care (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation) and also attempt to improve your health by using non-conventional approaches (laughter therapy, a vegetarian diet). Conventional medicine
Alternative medical systems are defined by NCCAM as a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine. Subcategories
Alternative medicine encompasses methods used in both complementary medicine and alternative medicine, known collectively as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). These methods are used in place of ("alternative to"), or in addition to ("complementary to"), conventional medical treatments .
Non-conventional medicine might define health in terms of concepts of balance and harmony or espouse vitalistic doctrines of the body. Illness could be understood as due to the accretion of bodily toxins and impurities, to result from magical, spiritual , or supernatural causes, or as arising from energy blockages in the body such that healing ...
Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy, by Alexander Beideman (1857). Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, is an archaic and derogatory label originally used by 19th-century homeopaths to describe heroic medicine, the precursor of modern evidence-based medicine.