What is Complimentary Medicines ? Complimentary Medicine is treatment that are used along with standard medical treatment .

Example :- Acupuncture to help lessen some side effects of the cancer treatment
What is alternative Medicines .

Alternative Medicine is treatment that are used instead of standard medical treatments independently as a full-fledged treatment system for each and every type of sufferings in the human beings .

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINES:- Integrative Medicine is a total approach to medical care that combines standard medicine with the CAM practices that have been shown to be safe and effective . They treat the patients’ mind , body and spirit .

Example of Complimentary Medicines :- Alternative Health approaches such as traditional India medicines, Traditional Chines Medicines, Naturopathy , Electro homoeopathy , Acupuncture, Acupressure, Massage Therapy, Ayurvedic Panchakarma, Therapy , Magneto Therapy , Yoga etc. …..

TYPES OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES:- Many different areas make up the practice of Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) . In addition , Many parts of one field may overlap with the parts of another fields .

Example :- Acupuncture is used in conventional medicines . In united states (AM) is used by about 38% of Adults and 12% of children .

Example of CAM :- Many different areas make up the practice of Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) . In addition , Many parts of one field may overlap with the parts of another fields .

1: Traditional Alternative Medicines :- This field includes the more mainstream and accepted forms of therapy such as acupuncture . Homoeopathy & oriental practice. These therapies have been practiced for centuries worldwide.

TRADITIONAL ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES ARE AS FOLLOWS :-
(i) Acupuncture
(ii) Acupressure
(iii) Ayurveda
(iv) Homoeopathy
(v) Naturopathy & yoga
(vi) Chinese or Oriental medicines

2. Body Therapy or Healing by Touch :- Body touch has been used in medicine Since the early days of medical care . Healing by touch is based on the Idea that Illness or injury in one area of the body can affect all parts of the body . If with manual manipulation , the other parts can be brought back to optimum health , the body can fully focus on healing at the site of injury or illness . Body technique are often combined with those of mind .

Example of body therapies :-
1. Chiropractic and osteopathic medicines
2. Massage
3. Body movement therapies
4. Taichi
5. Yoga

3. DIET AND HERBS :- Over centuries man has gone from a simple diet consisting of meat , fruits , vegetables and grains to a diet that often consists of foods richin fats, oils and complex carbohydrates , Nutritional excess and deficiency have become problems in to Society, both loading to , certain chronic diseases. Many dietary and herbal approaches attempt to balance the body’s nutritional well being .

Example of Dietary and herbal approaches :
i. Dietary Supplements
ii. Herbal Medicines
iii. Nutritional Diet

External Energy : Some physicians believe that external energies from objects or other source directly affect a person’s health .

Example :
i. Electromagnetic therapy
ii. Reiki
iii. Qigong

5. MIND THERAPY : Even standard or conventional medicines recognizes the power of connection between mind and body , studies have found that people heal better if they have good emotional and mental health .

Therapies using for the mind include:
i. Meditation
ii. Bio feed Back
iii. Hypnosis

6. SENSES : Some of the traditional physicians believe the senses touch , sight , hearing smell and taste can affect overall health

Example:
i. Art , Dance , music
ii. Visualization and Guided imagery