Alternative medicine is used in place of conventional medicine. The basic premise behind alternative healthcare is that our bodies use pain as a way to tell us that something is wrong. To dull the pain with medication, as is typically the course in the practice of conventional medicine does not cure the pain. The goal of physicians who practice alternative medicine is to find a cure by looking at the whole person when making a …showed first 75 words of 1924 total…

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