Alternative medicine is recognized as medical products and practices that do not belong to the standard cares taken by medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy and allied health professionals. Alternative medicine includes the mind-body interventions (., meditation, yoga, acupuncture, deep-breathing exercises, guided imageryAny of various techniques (such as a series of verbal suggestions) used to guide another person or oneself in imagining sensations— especially in visualizing an image in the mind—to bring about a desired physical response (such as stress reduction).hypnotherapy, progressive relaxation, tai chi), the practices based on putative energy field (also called biofield) (., qi gong, healing touch) and the biologically based therapies (., herbal medicines, vitamins,.
