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📚 noun • entry_id 25377

alternative medicine

Meanings (ES + gloss)
medicina alternativa
Any of various pseudoscientific medical methods and practices used in place of, or as well as, conventional (scientific) medicine.
Unlike their conventional counterparts, practitioners of alternative medicine often excel at harnessing the placebo effect, says Dr Ernst.
“Such courses involve so-called 'complementary or alternative medicine' masquerading as, and sitting side-by-side with, evidence-based health-related science courses,” the letter s…
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