Emergency & Acute Care Medicine

Alternative Medicine

Any approach that seeks to replicate the therapeutic benefits of medicine while lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or clinical trial proof is considered alternative medicine. Alternative medical methods are combined with those used in conventional care in complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrative medicine (IM), and holistic medicine. When utilised outside of their intended contexts and without the required scientific justification and support, traditional practises are deemed "alternative." New age or pseudo-medicine are frequently used pejorative names for related activities, with little differentiation from quackery.