ALTERNATIVE OR COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
People, dissatisfied with the methods of modern medicine or with its results, sometimes, seek help from those professing
expertise in other, less conventional, and sometimes controversial, forms of health care. Such practitioners are not medically
qualified but combining such treatments with a regular (allopathic) practice, which includes osteopathy. The treatments afforded in these various practices are not always subjected to objective assessment, yet they provide services that
are alternative, and sometimes complementary, to conventional practice. This group includes practitioners of homeopathy,
naturopathy, acupuncture, hypnotism, and various meditative and quasi-religious forms. Numerous persons also seek out some
form of faith healing to cure their ills, sometimes as a means of last resort.
Medical
and Alternative Medical Terminology, Explanations - by Courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica®
2001
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