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2. Alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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   Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness. Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical trials, producing ...

3. Wellness (alternative medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Alternative medicine. Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being. [2] The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement, in 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health and to consider the whole person, like New Thought, Christian Science ...

4. Naturopathy - Wikipedia

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   Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. [1] A wide array of practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing" are employed by its practitioners, who are known as naturopaths. Difficult to generalize, these treatments range from the pseudoscientific and thoroughly discredited, like ...

5. Herbal medicine - Wikipedia

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   Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. [1]

6. Functional medicine - Wikipedia

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   Alternative medicine. Functional medicine (FM) is a form of alternative medicine that encompasses a number of unproven and disproven methods and treatments. [1][2][3] It has been described as pseudoscience, [4] quackery, [5] and at its essence a rebranding of complementary and alternative medicine. [5] In the United States, FM practices have ...

7. Ayurveda - Wikipedia

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   Ayurveda (/ ˌɑːjʊərˈveɪdə, - ˈviː -/; IAST: āyurveda[ 1 ]) is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. [ 2 ] It is heavily practiced throughout India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, where as much as 80% of the population report using ayurveda. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] The theory and practice ...