Our dictionary of alternative medicine covers topics that have been identified as being related to alternative
medicine (CAM), wellness, or
are about an alternative position on health, healing, and/or illness.
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Our dictionary of alternative medicine is a comprehensive work on the branches of alternative medicine, alternative
treatment methods, as well covering the people and the terms and concepts commonly referenced in the field of complementary
and alternative medicine.
Our dictionary of alternative medicine provides a lot of useful information.
- The branches of alternative medicine have been organized and classified according to National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (NCCAM) guidelines, except that exercise based therapies are also included.
- Related items are grouped together.
- Short comments are made about famous people and terms and concepts commonly used in complementary
and alternative medicine.
- The topic of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is extensively covered.
- Related topics on wellness, diet, nutritional supplements, exercise, and medicine are included.
- We have done all the hard work for you. Anybody interested in alternative health information could easily spend
weeks exploring our dictionary.
- This dictionary defines terms in common usage without advocacy. No claim is being made about the therapeutic
value of any therapy, treatment, or system of medicine mentioned in the dictionary or in any article copied or
modified from an encyclopedia.
Version 1
Our dictionary of alternative medicine builds upon the work started by the GNU Free Documentation Project
on Alternative Medicine.
- The main part of the dictionary was created by the original founder of this project, by expertly merging material
from four indexes.
- Added NCCAM, and other, definitions and comments.
- Dramatically expands the coverage of exercise-based therapies.
- Dramatically expands the coverage of wellness-based
therapies.
- Dramatically increases the accessibility of alternative health information.
Version 2
Our dictionary of alternative medicine just got better.
- The search feature now searches only our dictionary of alternative medicine.
- Every link has been verified to be operational.
- Every entry contains a short comment or definition.
- Custom written articles have been coverted over to our standard CSS format.
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