Alternative medicine is basically any form of therapy used alone, without recommended standard/conventional treatment. We have used complementary and alternative medicine in our home for the last 25 years or so. In fact my husband did foot reflexology for years. Long before it was as popular as it is now. Alternative medicine health care really fills the many gaps left by regular health care. It seems to me that the average doctor now does not know how to heal, he only knows how to cover up the symptoms that we may suffer with. I was told for years to get my gall bladder out but I just wasn't comfortable with it. This past year I've been getting an alternative medicine health care treatment that has really helped me. It's the ionizing foot bath. It pulls the toxins out of the body through the feet. It's quite amazing. I feel so much better. My alternative medicine doctor told me to give up milk products and my arthritis would diminish and he was right. It worked like a charm. I think that it's a shame that we can't have doctors schooled in both types of medicine so that they can use them together on a regular basis.