What is the opposite of traditional medicine?
Alternative medicine is often called alternative medicine, complementary medicine, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), or non-mainstream medicine. The National Institute of Health (NIH) uses the terms complementary and integrative health and complementary health approaches.
What is conventional and alternative medicine?
Alternative medicine refers to non-mainstream practices used instead of conventional medicine. Integrative medicine is health care that uses all appropriate therapeutic approaches—conventional and non-mainstream—within a framework that focuses on health, the therapeutic relationship, and the whole person.
What is the difference between complementary and conventional medicine?
Also called best practice, standard of care, and standard therapy. Complementary medicine is used along with standard medical treatment but is not considered by itself to be standard treatment. One example is using acupuncture to help lessen some side effects of cancer treatment.