From elderly Americans with chronic health problems to young sufferers of such maladies as migraines, an increasing number of people are turning to non-traditional forms of treatment. And the medical establishment has taken note.
Some doctors now prescribe such therapies as acupuncture, but others are quick to cry quackery.
Once interested in non-conventional therapies, Raso said he has written them off. I was to disbelieve the claims. We're creating a new medicine which combines what we know of traditional bio-scientific medicine, and which brings in many other traditions from the world's healing cultures. Greenberg, who took the middle ground in the debate, said much of the conflict lay in definitions. Greenberg and Gordon agreed that alternative therapies should undergo the same rigorous testing as conventional treatments.