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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 ...
Acupressure; Acupuncture; Alkaline diet; Anthroposophic medicine; Apitherapy; Applied kinesiology; Aromatherapy; Association for Research and Enlightenment
Alternative medicine. Alternative cancer treatment describes any cancer treatment or practice that is not part of the conventional standard of cancer care. [2] These include special diets and exercises, chemicals, herbs, devices, and manual procedures. Most alternative cancer treatments do not have high-quality evidence supporting their use and ...
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health ( NCCIH) is a United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It was initially created in 1991 as the Office of Alternative Medicine ( OAM ), and renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM) before ...
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 ...
Alternative medicine describes any practice which aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but which lacks biological plausibility and is untested or untestable. Complementary medicine ( CM ), complementary and alternative medicine ( CAM ), integrated medicine or integrative medicine ( IM ), and holistic medicine are among many ...
Alternative medicine. Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being. [2] The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement, in 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health and to consider the whole person, like New Thought, Christian Science ...
Ayurveda ( / ˌɑːjʊərˈveɪdə, - ˈviː -/; IAST: ayurveda) [1] is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. [2] It is heavily practiced in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, where as much as 80% of the population report using ayurveda. [3] [4] [5] The theory and practice of ayurveda is ...