What is Alternative Medicine?

Shamika Schools: Alternative medicine is treatment that does not work.

Emeline Albracht: By definition, Alternative "medicine" basically refers to activities that have not been demonstrated to work, or shown not to work.With the exception of very, very few, the vast majority are scientifically implausible (e.g. homoeopathy, Reiki, faith healing, etc.)

Maurice Breuning: A lot of alternative medicine is quackery, scams and fraud. Much like the website you posted, where you are claiming to 'remove', among other things; Alzheimers Disease, Hepatitis B, Liver cancer, and Prostate Cancer. Well, no you can't. If I'm wrong please post your robust, peer reviewed scientific data that proves otherwise....Show more

Charissa Riley: Well there is real medicine which is shown to work, is science based and carried out in a robust and methodological way and then there is the alternative.

Dwight Siniard: There is not one clear answer for some Altmed don't really! know it themselves, be it because of mental retardation, be it because of pure ignorance.Alternative medicine is in fact not alternative.The names have been switched to create an illusion, or a lie.In fact regular medicine is alternative.Normal is :you have a problem.You look for cause, resolve it, and disease is gone.Alternative is :you say I am not guilty.Someone else solves it.I pay for it.Oh no, I also let others pay for it.We set up a construction of parasites.In material words : BIG PHARMA and GOVERNMENT get into the game.So that's a little bit about human history.I hope you're not too proud of being a human :)...Show more