Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine noun - The practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture.
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Synonyms for Alternative medicine
Folk medicine and alternative medicine are semantically related. in complementary medicine topic. In some cases you can use "Folk medicine" instead a noun phrase "Alternative medicine".
Folk medicine
Alternative medicine and folk medicine are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Alternative medicine" with "Folk medicine", this phrases are similar.
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Folk medicine and Alternative medicine. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/alternative_medicine/folk_medicine
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