Western medical practitioners today call alternative medicine. The term

alternative medicine covers a broad range of healing philosophies,

approaches, and therapies. It generally describes those treatments and

health care practices that are outside mainstream Western health care.

People use these treatments and therapies in a variety of ways. Alternative

therapies used alone are often referred to as alternative; when used in

combination with other alternative therapies, or in addition to conventional

therapies they are referred to as complementary. Some therapies are far

outside the realm of accepted Western medical theory and practice, but some,

like chiropractic treatments, are now established in mainstream medicine.

Worldwide, only an estimated ten to thirty percent of human health care is

delivered by conventional, biomedically oriented practitioners ("Fields of

Practice"). The remaining seventy to ninety percent ranges from self-care

according to folk principles, to care given in an organized health care

system based on alternative therapies ("Fields of Practice"). Many cultures

vitamin C to bolster their immune systems. Yet today, doctor and patient

proven its efficacy. However, with so many Americans already using

Hahnemann, it is based on the idea that "like cures like" (Kees); that

now, most of the studies have relied on personal observation and anecdotal

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