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Much of what is called "alternative medicine" is in fact much earlier in origin and use than Orthodox (正统的) medicine called conventional medicine, and it adopts a more natural approach to healing. Orthodox medicine
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people when they are ill, and lets preventive (预防性的) measures take a
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place. Alternative medicine will treat people
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they are well and seek to
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them from becoming ill.
There are other
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between the two forms. Orthodox medicine mainly attacks the symptoms of the particular disease
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which the patient is complaining. The alternative
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treat the whole man, seeking to
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his present condition to his whole lifestyle,
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may need to be changed into part of the cure to prevent a
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of the illness. This approach is of course also
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to orthodox medical students
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their early training but it is
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lost when they go into general
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. Alternative medicine refuses artificial drugs
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the main, seeking to use natural
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and to help the body to
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itself. The methods are gentler in
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to the patient and less violent in their action on his body.
Supporters of alternative medicine believe that these approaches are safer and more natural and have been shown through
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to work. In certain countries, alternative medical practices are the most widely used methods of health
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.