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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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Where alternative therapies have replaced conventional science-based medicine, even with the safest alternative medicines, failure to use or delay in using conventional science-based medicine has caused deaths. [188] [189] Many alternative medical treatments are not patentable, [208] which may lead to less research funding from the private ...
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
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Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) [1] is a branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice. Biomedicine stresses standardized, evidence-based treatment validated through biological research, with treatment administered via formally ...
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 ...