Yes Complementary medicine in the UK The term 'complementary medicine' replaced 'alternative medicine' as complementary medicine was increasingly seen as complementary to orthodox medicine.
The manuals are not meant to replace allopathic medicine but rather complement and support it.
But what if the placebo was not intended to replace your medicine, but to work alongside it?
"I'd definitely veer away from saying anything could replace a medicine fully," Longsjo says.
CAM provides non-mainstream approaches which complement or replace conventional medicine [ 15].
EBM has long since evolved beyond its initial (mis conception, that EBM might replace traditional medicine.
The majority of both groups of CAM consumers reported that they used CAM to supplement rather than replace conventional medicine, a finding that is consistent with other CAM research [ 31, 32].
Many CAM therapies are used to complement, rather than replace, conventional medicine; therefore, it is important to identify a model that can serve as a unified framework for the decision to use A/C within this context.
Questions about how long they had been using CAM (under 6 months, under 1 year, 1 to 2 years, 3 to 5 years, or over 5 years), and how they use CAM (i.e., to supplement or replace conventional medicine) were also included.
