Some doctors say it is unscientific, while others try to combine it with conventional medicine. (Conventional medicine refers to medicine in which drugs are used.) ... In the second half of the 1900's, people became more aware of alternative medicine and began to use it more instead of conventional medicine. Many began to use because of the risk, cost and inability of conventional medicine to cure common diseases. ... Conventional preventive medicine owes a lot to naturopathic tradition according to some people. ...

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Some doctors say it is unscientific, while others try to combine it with conventional medicine. (Conventional medicine refers to medicine in which drugs are used.) ... In the second half of the 1900's, people became more aware of alternative medicine and began to use it more instead of conventional medicine. Many began to use because of the risk, cost and inability of conventional medicine to cure common diseases. ... Conventional preventive medicine owes a lot to naturopathic tradition according to some people. ...

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This returns to the argument concerning medicine verse quackery and where complementary and alternative medicines fall in this argument. Whether alternative and complementary medicines fall under the category of medicine or quackery is often of debate. The differences between alternative and complementary medicine to mainstream medicine can be complex. The NCCAM states that alternative medicine refers to the use of "a non-mainstream approach in place of conventional medicine," while complimentary medicine refers to the use of "a non-mainstream approach together with convention...

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