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'''Alternative Medicine''' (etymological meaning: <ref>"alternative": etymological meaning. Adj. "1580s, "offering one or the other of two," from M.L. alternativus, from L. alternatus, pp. of alternare (see alternate). Sense of "the other of two which may be chosen" is recorded from 1838. Adj. use, "purporting to be a superior choice to what is in general use" was current by 1970 (earliest ref. is to the media); e.g. alternative energy (1975).", Source: Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alternative (accessed: June 03, 2011).</ref> refers to methods and treatments that are not used by science based medicine (or ''evidence based medicine, EBM''). Alternative treatments are almost always [[pseudomedicine]]. Especially it's supporters use also terms like ''complementary medicine'', ''experience based medicine'' and ''integrative medicine''. Complementary and alternative medicine are often called ''CAM''.
'''Alternative Medicine''' (etymological meaning: <ref>"alternative": etymological meaning. Adj. "1580s, "offering one or the other of two," from M.L. alternativus, from L. alternatus, pp. of alternare (see alternate). Sense of "the other of two which may be chosen" is recorded from 1838. Adj. use, "purporting to be a superior choice to what is in general use" was current by 1970 (earliest ref. is to the media); e.g. alternative energy (1975).", Source: Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alternative (accessed: June 03, 2011).</ref> refers to methods and treatments that are not used by science based medicine (or ''evidence based medicine, EBM''). Alternative treatments are almost always [[pseudomedicine]]. Especially it's supporters use also terms like ''complementary medicine'', ''experience based medicine'' and ''integrative medicine''. Complementary and alternative medicine are often called ''CAM''.