Alternative Medicine If you have ever taken high-dose vitamins, used an herbal remedy, or sought treatment from a chiropractor, you are among the millions all over the world who use alternative medicine to ward off illness or treat a variety of ailments. Known by a variety of terms--complementary, holistic, unorthodox, integrative-- alternative medicine refers to most treatment practices that are not considered conventional medicine (widely practiced or accepted by the mainstream medical community). Incorporating hundreds of different philosophies and procedures, alternative therapies are usually ideologically based. Doctors and th