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    Reincarnate Rejuvenation Revival
    Alternative medicine describes medical treatments used instead of traditional therapies and includes practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, and herbal remedies. It consists of treatments that are disproven, unproven, or excessively harmful compared to their effects. Traditional alternative medicine includes more mainstream therapies used for centuries like acupuncture, which stimulates specific body points by inserting thin needles, and homeopathy, which treats individuals based on their unique symptoms and health to stimulate self-healing. Herbal medicine also falls under alternative medicine and relies on plants, fungi, roots and other natural sources to prevent, cure, or reduce medical conditions.

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    Alternative medicine describes medical treatments used instead of traditional therapies and includes practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, and herbal remedies. It consists of treatments that are disproven, unproven, or excessively harmful compared to their effects. Traditional alternative medicine includes more mainstream therapies used for centuries like acupuncture, which stimulates specific body points by inserting thin needles, and homeopathy, which treats individuals based on their unique symptoms and health to stimulate self-healing. Herbal medicine also falls under alternative medicine and relies on plants, fungi, roots and other natural sources to prevent, cure, or reduce medical conditions.

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    Alternative medicine describes medical treatments used instead of traditional therapies and includes practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, and herbal remedies. It consists of treatments that are disproven, unproven, or excessively harmful compared to their effects. Traditional alternative medicine includes more mainstream therapies used for centuries like acupuncture, which stimulates specific body points by inserting thin needles, and homeopathy, which treats individuals based on their unique symptoms and health to stimulate self-healing. Herbal medicine also falls under alternative medicine and relies on plants, fungi, roots and other natural sources to prevent, cure, or reduce medical conditions.

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    ALTERNATIVE

    MEDICINE
    Alternative medicine is a term that describes medical
    treatments that are used instead of traditional (mainstream)
    therapies. Some people also refer to it as “integrative,” or
    “complementary” medicine.
    Alternative medicine or fringe medicine consists of
    practices claimed to have the healing effects
    of medicine but which are disproven, unproven, impossible
    to prove, or are excessively harmful in relation to their
    effect; and where the scientific consensus is that the
    therapy does not, or cannot, work because the known laws
    of nature are violated by its basic claims; or where it is
    considered so much worse than conventional treatment
    that it would be unethical to offer as treatment.
     Treatments that are used instead of standard treatments.
    Standard treatments are based on the results of scientific
    research and are currently accepted and widely used.
    Less research has been done for most types of alternative
    medicine. Alternative medicine may include special
    diets, megadose vitamins, herbal preparations, special
    teas, and magnet therapy.
     According to the National Center for Complementary
    and Integrative Health, actual alternative medicine is
    very rare. The organization defines alternative medicine
    as any non-conventional interventions that are used
    instead of conventional treatments, not in conjunction
    with them. Interventions like yoga, acupuncture, herbal
    remedies and massage therapy may be alternative
    treatments, but are considered alternative medicine only
    when they're used in place of conventional treatments,
    explained National Center for Complementary and
    Integrative Health Deputy Director David Shurtleff.
    Traditional alternative medicine
    This field includes the more mainstream and accepted
    forms of therapy such as acupuncture, homeopathy, and
    Oriental practices. These therapies have been used for
    centuries around the world. Traditional alternative
    medicine may include:

     Acupuncture
     Homeopathy
     Unani
     What is Acupuncture?
    Acupuncture is a technique in which practitioners
    stimulate specific points on the body—most often by
    inserting thin needles through the skin. It is one of the
    practices used in traditional Chinese medicine.
     What Is Homeopathy?
    Homeopathy is a system of natural health care that has
    been in worldwide use for over 200 years.Homeopathy
    treats each person as a unique individual with the aim of
    stimulating their own healing ability. A homeopath selects
    the most appropriate medicine based on the individual's
    specific symptoms and personal level of health.
    It is recognized by the World Health Organization as the
    second largest therapeutic system in use in the world.
    While it is most popular in India and South America, over
    thirty million people in Europe, and millions of others
    around the world, also benefit from its use.
    Unani medicine, also called Unani tibb, Arabian
    medicine, or Islamic medicine, a traditional system of
    healing and health maintenance observed in South Asia.
    The origins of Unani medicine are found in the doctrines
    of the ancient Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen
    Herbal medicine is thus one types of alternative medicine.
    Herbal medicine relies on all sorts of roots, bark, flowers,
    berries and leaves of various plants or fungi to either
    prevent, cure or minimize a medical condition's effect on
    the body. For example, Valerian root is believed by many to
    help relax a person and might thus be used by some to help
    treat insomnia. Otzi himself carried the woody fruit of a
    fungus known as Piptoporus betulinus. Piptoporus
    betulinus contains compounds that might be effective
    against diarrhea cause by parasites or bacteria.

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