Complementary And Alternative Medicine Overview

Complementary and Alternative Medicine or CAM areapproach and time-tested, natural remedies, hands-on
diagnostic or therapeutic techniques that are outsidetreatments to help enable the body's own innate
the mainstream of Western medicine. Alternativepowers to do the healing, alternative medicine
medicine is used in place of conventional medicinerequires the patient to take a highly active part in
while complementary medicine is used along withhealing their own body including prevention and
conventional medicine though some of thetreatment. Complementary Medicine is sometimes
treatments methods are the same. Although mostused by "conventional" medical practitioners as an add
people utilize mainstream medicine for diagnosis andon to "conventional" medical treatments such as
basic information, many are now turning todrugs and surgery. Complementary therapies are
alternatives for what they believe to be total bodyused to improve wellness, prevent disease or treat
health-enhancing measures. CAM is very popular withhealth problems but the most popular and prevalent
people who are terminally ill and has also been useduse remains pain control. Included in complementary
on animals. There have also been sufficient instancesmedicine are a large number of practices and
of "inexplicable" extension of life and other significantsystems of health care like acupuncture,
health benefits for people who have pursued thesehomeopathy, aromatherapy, osteopathy, reflexology
options that the Western health systems are nowand chiropractic that for many reasons have not
seriously starting to further assess these systems.been fully adopted by mainstream medicine.
Alternative medicine is a fairly broad term whichComplementary medicine also includes dietary and
covers many different methods of treatment suchnutritional therapies such as macrobiotics,
as acupuncture, homeopathy, Chinese herbalvegetarianism, and orthomolecular medicine. Although
medicine, Ayurvedic and more. Therapies such asCAM is starting to gain popularity in the West, most
biofeedback, massage, and exercise are alsoclinical research by the health care industry continues
considered alternative medicine. Alternative medicineto focus on the success of each single modality or
includes various systems of healing or treatingtherapy within these systems. This is unfortunate as
disease such as chiropractic, homeopathy, and faithCAM is generally based on the belief that you need
healing. Alternative medicine is a comprehensiveto, simultaneously, treat the whole person - body,
approach to healing that uses natural methods tomind, and spirit - which can include the use of many
bring physical, mental, emotional, and spiritualtherapies at the same time.
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