alternative medicine

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   the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture

   Broadermedicine

   Narrowerherbal medicine

Questions about alternative medicine

What does alternative medicine mean?

alternative medicine means "the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture".

Is alternative medicine a common word?

alternative medicine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.