title: The growing acceptance of complementary and alternative medicine.
abstract: Alternative and complementary medicine is becoming more popular among consumers and prescribed more by health care professionals. Alternative medicine can be traced back thousands of years, however, it wasn't introduced to the United States until the early 1900s. Alternative medicine encompasses a wide range of therapies including homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, massage and bodywork therapy, meditation, nutritional supplements, and herbal remedies. Understanding the background and benefits of these alternatives is important to all health care professionals.
authors.affiliation: Center for Energy Medicine, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Carrie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bodane
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brownson
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D004347:Drug Interactions; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D014481:United States