Alternative Medicine provides services not available through conventional medicine methods, incorporating spiritual, metaphysical, and religious traditions, along with emerging methods of treatment and healing. Alternative Medicines include naturopathy, acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy, chiropractic, hydrotherapy, massage therapy, and many other therapies and medicines that are designed to restore and maintain good health.

The primary principle of holistic Alternative Medicine is that a pathogen, a virus or bacteria, for instance, is not the cause of illness, but rather that illness is the consequence of the body’s reaction to the pathogen. Naturopathic and holistic Alternative Medicine practitioners treat their patients with methods that alleviate the symptoms of the disease. Various Alternative Medicine methods are effective in treating a wide range of major and minor medical conditions, and research has proven that specific alternative treatments are effective. Research shows that there is a growing demand for Alternative Medicines, and that many conventional physicians support aspects of Alternative Medicine.