are alternative medicine methods that haven’t been scientifically tested yet?

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1. oldtimekid2 on November 29th, 2009 9:03 am

   In some cases, it can be both.
   There are some things labeled as "Alternative Medicine" that have not been scientifically tested and there’s not much scientific knowledge about them. Most often, they are newer methods, but also crystals, magnets, and various energy-based healing that science doesn’t know how to test it.

   Most Alternative Medicines have been scientifically tested, but they just aren’t adopted by modern medicine facilities. The main examples are herbs, Chiropractic, nutrition-based healing, etc… those have been tested, verified, and proven to be effective, but most doctors don’t acknowledge them.

   Then there are a few that have a little scientific testing, but not much, and even though they help a lot of people, they still aren’t accepted by the general medical community. A couple of the biggest examples are Acupuncture and Homeopathy… millions (if not billions) of people world-wide use them successfully, but many doctors won’t accept them because they don’t follow any of their testing methods (meaning they don’t know how to test for it, but it works).

   The reason it’s called "Alternative Medicine"? Who knows. Someone just came up with the term a long time ago and nobody remembers who or why. Some people refer to the other "non-Alternative" as "allopathic", but that is actually more of a derogatory term that was coined when Homeopathy was started in the early 1800s. "Conventional medicine", "western medicine", and "modern medicine" are the more common (and less insulting) terms for the drugs and surgery that most doctors are trained in.
   Good luck and I hope I helped!

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