The traditional western mode of practising medicine is undergoing a shake-up as more and more people are looking elsewhere for answers and turning back to the not-so-new practice of "alternative medicine". According to the Oxford Dictionary, alternative medicine is "any type of treatment that promotes health without using artificial drugs". A recent article on "Traditional and Complementary Healing" states that " alternative medicine is also termed complementary medicine".
Many alternative healing traditions have survived hundreds of years. Other systems such as homeopathy and psychotherapy and holistic treatment have come about more recently in conjunction with scientific medicine. These traditional medicines are now moving into the mainstream. Alternative medicine is the medicine of the 21 st century.
The term "alternative medicine' covers a vast range of activities which are grouped into various categories. The complete systems of healing have a theoretical base as tot he causation of disease in addition to their diagnostic, investigative an therapeutic understanding. In this respect, they share some similarities to orthodox medicine.
Most of these systems of healing have an educational framework and by and large consider themselves to be competent enough to deal with he problems that come their way.
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