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Alternative and Complimentary Medicine

By Viola Woolcott

Alternative Medicine describes practices used in place of conventional medical treatments.

Complementary Medicine describes Alternative Medicine used in conjunction with conventional medicine.

The term Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is an umbrella term for both branches.

Alternative Medicine includes practices that incorporate spiritual, metaphysical, or religious underpinnings; non-European medical traditions, or newly developed approaches to healing. There are almost 500 such systems.

CAM is an acronym for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

It also includes the recent addition of integrative medicine. CAM is about Alternative positions on health, healing, and illness. Complementary and Alternative Medicine covers a very broad range of areas from self-help to professional care and from the sensible and worthwhile to the ridiculous.

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Filed under: Alternative Therapy on November 28th, 2007