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  2. Alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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    Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness. Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical trials, producing ...

  3. List of forms of alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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    African. Muti; Southern Africa; Ayurveda. Dosha; MVAH; Balneotherapy; Brazilian; Bush medicine; Cambodian; Chinese. Blood stasis; Chinese herbology; Dit da; Gua sha ...

  4. Naturopathy - Wikipedia

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    Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. [1] A wide array of practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing" are employed by its practitioners, who are known as naturopaths. Difficult to generalize, these treatments range from the pseudoscientific and thoroughly discredited, like ...

  5. Ayurveda - Wikipedia

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    Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Amsterdam in 1967. Ayurveda is a system of traditional medicine developed during antiquity and the medieval period, and as such is comparable to pre-modern Chinese and European systems of medicine. In the 1960s, ayurveda began to be advertised as alternative medicine in the Western world.

  6. Acupuncture - Wikipedia

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    Acupuncture[b] is a form of alternative medicine [2] and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. [3] Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; [4][5] the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge, [6] and it has been characterized as quackery.

  7. History of alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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