complementary medicine

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Medicinal plant use is the most common medication tool in traditional medicine and complementary medicine worldwide.
在世界各地，使用药用植物是传统医学和补充疗法中最常见的治疗工具。
ON MAY 29th Edzard Ernst, the world’s first professor of complementary medicine, will step down after 18 years in his post at the Peninsula Medical School, in south-west England.
5月29日，作为世界首位互补性医学专家---艾德撒.恩斯特（Edzard Ernst）将从位于英国西北部的半岛医学院退休，他在这里曾效力了18年。
In some countries, it is referred to as "alternative" or "complementary" medicine (CAM).
一些国家亦将其称为“替代医学”或“补充医学”。
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But this is one of the fundamental disconnects between Western medicine and what people often refer to as complementary medicine.
NEWYORKER: The Operator
But hazing is a complementary medicine, not an alternative one.
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a wide range of treatments for medical conditions that people use instead of or in addition to ordinary medicine

the treatment, alleviation, or prevention of disease by such techniques as osteopathy, homeopathy, aromatherapy, and acupuncture, allied with attention to such factors as diet and emotional stability, which can affect a person's wellbeing (Also called alternative medicine)&rarrsee also holism