Alternative systems

alternative medicine

A variety of therapeutic or preventive health care practices, such as homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, and herbal medicine, that do not follow generally accepted medical methods and may not have a scientific explanation for their effectiveness.

alternative medicine

(Medicine / Complementary Medicine) another name for complementary medicine See also holism [2]

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A variety of therapeutic or preventive health-care practices that are not typically taught or practiced in traditional medical communities and offer treatments that differ from standard medical practice. Homeopathy, herbal medicine, and acupuncture are types of alternative medicine.

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Noun

alternative medicine - the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture

practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"

herbal medicine - the use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health

Translations

alternative medicine

n → Alternativmedizin f

alternative medicine n → medicina alternativa

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alternative
alternatively
Bach flower remedy
Cam
complementary medicine
herbal medicine
holism
latterly
medicine
New Age
practice of medicine
reflexology

A final section recasts the information into key questions and recommendation on such matters as whether the US needs such a capacity, what nuclear ambiguity concerns arise and how they might be mitigated, whether research and eventual manufacture should continue, and testing alternative systems.

U.S. conventional prompt global strike; issues for 2008 and beyond by Reference & Research Book News

The principal example of this among the Western democracies has been the creation of alternative systems of Catholic schools in countries with a significant Catholic population but a public school system considered by the church hierarchy inappropriate for Catholic children.

Choice benefits by Glenn, Charles L. / Education Next

In Brisbane, Australia the law obliges the use of one of the three alternative systems, whereas in Cyprus the Council of Minister decided that by the end of 2009 all establishments should replace the simple mechanism, with an alternative system.

Urinals use as much water as seven people every day by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)

Alternative Site Processing Team
alternative site provider
Alternative Small Target Block
Alternative Software Development Kit
Alternative Solution for International Accounting
Alternative Solutions Inc.
Alternative Source Term
Alternative Space Craft
Alternative Specific Constants
Alternative Splicing Factor
alternative splicing of the p53 mRNA
Alternative Sports World Cup
Alternative Spring Break
Alternative Spring Break Detroit
alternative states of consciousness
Alternative Strategies and Regulatory Affairs Division
Alternative Strategies for Tax Administration
Alternative Strategies for the Handicapped
Alternative Strategy Advisers LLC
Alternative Subgraphs Assembly Line Balancing Problem
Alternative Support Apparatus
Alternative Support for Induction Science Teachers
Alternative sweetener
Alternative sweetener
Alternative System of Control

Alternative systems

Alternative Systems Review
Alternative Tariff
Alternative Tariffs
Alternative Tax Net Operating Loss
Alternative Tax Net Operating Loss Deduction
Alternative Tea
Alternative Tea
Alternative Tea
Alternative Technical Concept
Alternative Technologies and Approaches
Alternative Technologies and Approaches Team
Alternative Technologies International
Alternative Technology Association
Alternative Technology Centre
Alternative Tentacles
Alternative Tenure and Enterprise Models
Alternative Test Method
Alternative Test System
alternative theatre
Alternative Theories
Alternative Theories
Alternative Theories
Alternative Theories
Alternative theory
Alternative theory
Alternative theory
Alternative theory
Alternative therapies
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
Alternative therapy

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