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Consumer interest in alternative medicine has soared over the past decade. What was once considered as primitive, unscientific and ineffective has now been embraced into mainstream medicine. Annually, Americans spend ten billion dollars on alternative therapies (Kothari). Many of these therapies now strongly rely on the administration of alternative drugs or supplements. Public perception of alternative drugs as safe and healthy coupled with under-regulation of the industry can have dangerous consequences.
Alternative medicine refers to those therapeutic practices that are not currently considered an integral part of conventional allopathic medical practice such as herbal medicines (The Alternative Medicine Homepage). Alternative therapies tend to integrate physical, spiritual and psychological perspectives to treat illnesses. ...
Alternative drugs are marketed as dietary supplements which are usually extracts of a natural species. ... Harmful herb-herb or herb-drug (that is medicinal drugs) interactions, severe allergic reactions and even dangerous overdoses can occur as a consequence of this missight.
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