Health and Nutrition

Alternative medicine can be defined as practices not generally recognized by the medical community as standard or conventional medical approaches. Frequently, alternative medicine involves the use of natural substances such as herbs and vitamins, often in combination formulas, but sometimes taken individually, to treat illness and/or maintain health. There are a growing number of alternative physicians that use these combinations of herbs and vitamins to treat their patients.

Instead of or in addition to the herbs and vitamin supplements, an alternative practitioner may also employ methods such as dietary plans that include foods rich in the nutrients needed to address and correct various undesireable conditions. At times, an alternative physician may also be a licensed doctor of conventional medicine and combine pharmaceutical drugs and natural substances to treat her patients.

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