The Chinese medication is all natural but takes for- ever. Sometimes it's good, real good, to feel better in a couple of days as opposed to a couple of weeks. An interesting thing to know about natural is that most of the poisons known to man are natural substances. In that case, the benefit to your spiritual process is of greater importance to you than the discomfort of the infection you're trying to get rid of. It's a matter of making a wise and educated choice.
Supplemental therapy is very close, almost interchangeable with complementary therapy.
More often than not when we consider using supplementation it is because of a feared dietary deficiency. There are many different supplementary pills, powders, drinks and shakes out there. Each of these supplements is designed to meet the specific nutritional needs of the individual. When we use the term traditional medicine, what we usually mean is western medicine. For those of us who have been raised in western society our largest comfort zone comes from trusting our primary physician.