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complementary and integrative medicine
'''Alternative medicine''' is [[medicine]] that stands in different kinds of [[Wikipedia:Polarity|polarities]] to [[conventional medicine]]. The following table contains aspects because of which medical systems may be called alternative.
'''Alternative medicine''' is [[medicine]] that stands in different kinds of [[Wikipedia:Polarity|polarities]] to [[conventional medicine]]. The following table contains aspects because of which medical systems may be called alternative. Such medicine might be used instead of conventional medicine. If it is thought of something that is not inside conventional medicine but has some right of existence and might form some sort of bigger whole it might be called [[complementary medicine]]. If the focus is on dialog between complementary and conventional medicine the term [[integrative medicine]] came into use.
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|+Possible reasons for being called alternative
|+Possible reasons for being called alternative