Question:
How Popular Is Alternative Medicine?

According to a study in the Jan. 28, 1993, New England Journal of Medicine, 1in 3 patients used alternative therapy in 1990. More than 80 percent of thosewho use alternative therapies used conventional medicine at the same time, butdid not tell their doctors about the alternative treatments. In 1990,Americans made an estimated 425 million visits to alternative healthpractitioners-more than they made to primary care physicians.

In 1992, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, establishedthe Office of Alternative Medicine, which devotes more than $3 million a yearto exploring unconventional healing techniques such as meditation, massage,vitamin therapy and herbal therapy.

In 1993, Americans spent an estimated $1.5 billion on herbal remedies,including teas and supplements. While that's a lot less than the $13.3 billionspent on over-the-counter drugs, it's more than ten times the amount we spendon over-the-counter sleeping pills from grocery stores and drugstores.

As mentioned before, worldwide, only an estimated 10 percent to 30 percent ofhuman health care is delivered by conventional, biomedically orientedpractitioners. The remaining 70 percent to 90 percent ranges from self-careaccording to folk principles to care given in an organized health care systembased on an alternative tradition or practice.

Answer: Whasamtter Mark, can't bring yourself to post the URL??

Can't stand for alternative to be popular?

Look in the mirror, there a hint.

Then tell us how eager you are to discuss alternative medicine.

Your words are moot.

Now for the reasons.

Not yours, but the peoples.

Your attempt at diverson, doesn't change anything, just shows more tricks ofthe debunkers, plus makes a liar of of you in saying you would be gald todiscuss alternative medicine. Just like the others you are only here to argue.