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Alternative medicine consists of a wide range of health care practices, products, and therapies. The shared feature is a claim to heal that is not based on the scientific method. Alternative medicine practices are diverse in their foundations and methodologies. [22]
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Alternative medicine is a term often used to describe medical practices where are untested or untestable. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrated medicine or integrative medicine (IM), functional medicine, and holistic medicine are among many rebrandings of the same phenomenon.
Experimental medicine is conventional medicine that is unproven, but which aspires to be proven using evidence-based standards and is actively being researched. Unproven medicine Any medicine for which no good evidence exists either way. "Unproven medicine" can be alternative, complementary, conventional, or traditional.
The Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) was established in October 1991 by the United States Congress. The OAM was expanded from an office into a center and renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in October 1998. [4] [5] [6] It is one of several centers within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The history of alternative medicine covers the history of a group of diverse medical practices that were collectively promoted as "alternative medicine" beginning in the 1970s, to the collection of individual histories of members of that group, or to the history of western medical practices that were labeled "irregular practices" by the western medical establishment.
Alexander did not originally conceive of his technique as therapy, but it has become a form of alternative medicine. [ 1 ] When considering how to classify the Alexander Technique in relation to mainstream medicine, some sources describe it as alternative and/or complementary , depending on whether it is used alone or with mainstream methods.
Alternative Medicine on Trial (North American title: Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine) [1] is a 2008 book by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The book evaluates the scientific evidence for alternative medicines such as acupuncture , homeopathy , herbal medicine , and chiropractic , [ 2 ] and ...