Alternative medicine
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Alternative medicine refers to practices that aim to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but that by definition lack biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or supporting evidence of
Marcia Angell: "There cannot be two kinds of medicine – conventional and alternative."
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Q: What do you call Alternative Medicine that survives double-blind laboratory tests? A: Regular Medicine.
Acupuncture involves insertion of needles in the body.
"They told me if I took 1000 pills at night I should be quite another thing in the morning", an early 19th-century satire on Morison's Vegetable Pills, an alternative medicine supplement
Ayurveda
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Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. It is heavily practised throughout India and Nepal, where as much as 80% of the population report using ayu
Dhanvantari, an avatar of Vishnu, is the Hindu god associated with ayurveda.
Physician taking pulse, Delhi, c. 1825
An ayurvedic practitioner applying oil using head massage
Ayurvedic preparations displayed in Delhi in 2016