complementary and alternative medicine, alternative medicine health carealternative medicine is not clear cut. First of all a lot of people tend to confuse complementary and alternative medicine as being the same thing. However, there is a big difference between complementary and alternative medicine. Complementary medicine is composed of a dual approach toward health issues; by making use of the best that traditional medicine has to offer combined with the best that non-traditional medicine has to offer. When it comes to alternative medicine health care, we are talking about a strict approach to health issues which makes sole use of alternative medicine and completely rejects traditional treatments. For a lot of people the middle ground is always the best choice in anything and it’s no different when it comes to complementary and alternative medicine. For them, it’s comforting to know that if one therapy does not work, they have another choice from the other side of the health spectrum. Those that tend to adhere to alternative medicine find no advantage in traditional medicine and many of them find it to be counter therapeutic. In fact, some people believe that traditional medicine is the cause of many of our ailments. At this point, the complementary and alternative medicine debate will continue since there are no definite studies claiming superiority for either.