complementary therapy meaning

• [Medicine]
  Therapeutic practices which are not currently considered an integral part of conventional allopathic medical practice. They may lack biomedical explanations but as they become better researched some (PHYSICAL THERAPY; DIET; ACUPUNCTURE) become widely accepted whereas others (humors,radium therapy) quietly fade away,yet are important historical footnotes. Therapies are termed as Complementary when used in addition to conventional treatments and as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment.

• Number of alternative and complementary therapies now being promoted which,
• The sio is dedicated to studying facilitating the cancer treatment and recovery process through the use of complementary therapies
• Recent research suggests that more than half of women with breast cancer use some form of complementary therapy by the completion of chemotherapy
• As for the complementary therapies themselves, there are many examples.
• There is no central collecting body for complementary therapy.
• Department of Health to help organise the self-regulation of complementary therapies.
• The move toward complementary therapies has not won universal support by the medical community.
• A : The book really focuses on exercise, nutrition, medication management and complementary therapies.
• But complementary therapies are gaining more widespread attention, particularly as the costs of traditional medicine rise.
• There was no difference in distress indicated by the type of complementary therapy sought, the researchers add.

• "complementary therapy" meaning in Chinese: 辅助疗法
• "complementary therapy" meaning in Japanese: 補完療法｛ほかん りょうほう｝