Noun
the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture
Source: WordNetIf any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests. Richard Dawkins
Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation. Stephen Fry
Above all, religion, faith healing, and alternative medicine all show the diagnostic feature of faith: an agenda not to find the truth, but to support one's biases, emotions, and personal beliefs. Jerry Coyne
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. Marcia Angell
Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. Mehmet Oz
If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream. Deepak Chopra