Alternative medicine provides services not available through conventional medicine, incorporating spiritual, metaphysical, and religious traditions, along with emerging methods of treatment and healing. Alternative medicines include naturopathy, Ayurveda, homeopathy, acupuncture and acupressure, chiropractic, hydrotherapy, hypnotherapy, and many other therapies and medicines that are designed to restore and maintain good health.

The principle of holistic alternative medicine is that a pathogen, a virus or bacteria, for instance, is not the cause of illness, but rather that illness is the consequence of the body's reaction to the pathogen. Naturopathic and holistic alternative medicine practitioners threat their patients with methods that alleviate the symptoms of the disease. Various alternative medicine methods are effective in treating a wide range of major and minor medical conditions, and research has proven that specific alternative treatments are effective. Research also proves that the demand for alternative medicines is growing, and that some conventional physicians support aspects of alternative medicine.

Alternative medicine promotes patient empowerment, psychic and spiritual growth, and mental, emotional, and physical health. Alternative medicine teaches the positive effects of good nutrition and the intake of supplemental vitamins and minerals, and uses of plants, herbs, and animal and mineral products that treat illness and promote health.

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