For that we used alternative medicine?

Today I want to leave an investigation in reflection mode.

The term alternative medicine has no single widely accepted definition due to the large number of practices that encompasses and imprecision of its limits. The uses and practices considered "alternative" have very different and often incompatible origins and philosophical principles. These practices include, among others, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage or homeopathy.

When used alone are sometimes called "alternative". When used in conjunction with conventional medicine, are sometimes called "complementary".

Other methods are based on mystical arguments, both of Eastern religions and Western. Diagnoses or treatments that would be qualified malpractice and punished in many countries if they were executed by a doctor, go unnoticed elsewhere to be applied by a practitioner not entitled.

Main types of complementary and alternative medicine, traditional and integrative

• Alternative Medical Systems

• Focus on the mind and body

• Biological Therapies

• Methods of handling and body-based

• Therapies based on the 'energy'

So my dear readers help or not help us alternative medicine, use it or not? I think it would be our decision but what is certain is that the methods that are used once were some alternative so that never hurts to try.

It is time for the scientific community to stop giving flight to alternative medicine. There can be two types of drugs: conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and no, that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the beginning. If found to be reasonably safe and effective, that is accepted. But assertions, speculation and testimonials are no substitute for evidence. Alternative treatments should be subjected to no less stringent than that required for conventional treatments scientific evidence.

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