What is alternative medicine? 11 Articles

by Bonnie Moss

Alternative and complementary medicine has swept through the world as people seek greater control of their health. It is now a popular belief that whatever ails man, the underlying cause is within himself, thus the word di...read more

by Evelyn Blaken

What is Alternative Medicine? Alternative medicine is a term used to describe traditional forms of treating illness, instead of using conventional western medicine. For example, following a special diet to to control diab...read more

by Rex Trulove

Since ancient times, when someone was sick or had an injury, they were taken to the local healer. Early on, the local healers did their work by using herbs, other items on hand, and by sometimes using spirituality to heal ...read more

by Mr Magica

Alternative medicine is defined as any therapeutic practice that doesn't fall under conventional medical practices. Also referred to as Complementary Alternate Medicine, or CAM for short, it consists of any treatment that ...read more

by Natalie Louise Fox

Medicine can be defined as a substance or science of treating illness, but what about alternative medicine? There are arguably two main schools of thought when it comes to the application of medicine as used by humans. ...read more

by James Johnson

What is "Alternative Medicine"? It is exactly what the words say and mean, alternative medicine. It is the use of techniques or products outside the norm, those not currently accepted by conventional medical practitioner...read more

by Madison Ogashi

Alternative Medicine - What is it Most people think of Alternative Medicine as dealing with plants, herbs and nutrition. At least I did, until I started researching for this article. Alternative Medicine is much more ...read more

by Judi Radley

Alternative medicine generally refers to practices not typically used in conventional medicine. Alternative medicine covers a broad range of healing philosophies, approaches and therapies. Examples are homeopathy, naturopa...read more

by Kristal Mcvicar

Although highly accepted and practiced in many countries and cultures, Alternative Medicine has just begun to gain support and practitioners within North America in the past generation. Alternative Medicine (and it's exte...read more

by Vicki Phipps

Any medication or treatment other than what is widely used within the western medical world is an Alternative way to treat a disease through alternative medicine. Advocates of alternative medications and therapies claim th...read more

by Tressa Paul

Most of us in the modern world have been growing up depending on mainstream medical care provided by doctors trained in university- affiliated medical schools. This mainstream medical practice has also been called conventi...read more