The definition of alternative medicine has taken the definitions of complementary and integrative medicine. Holistic approach is not an alternative of medicine. Its’ many methods are involved in Western medicine and can be applied with conventional treatments as we call it. The most important characteristic of it is that instead of treating the complaints of the patient, it tries to treat the whole body. These therapies is instead of using the medicines the drug industry produced, it generally uses the methods, which affect the body’s network.

At the beginning of an illness, changes occur in the nervous system in other words in the body’s network before the structural damages. For this reason, the approach to healing and patients must primarily be at an energetically-informative level.

As a result of the overall healing of the patient, the methods included in integrative and/or complementary medicine proves quicker discovery compared to conventional treatment. Physicians with this point of view use conventional methods more effective and correctly.

The Common Scientific Methods of Integrative/ Complementary Medicine included in Alternative Medicine

• Acupuncture
• Auriculutherapy – Auriculomedicine
• Homeopathy
• Magnetic Field Therapy
• Neural Therapy
• Family Constellation
• Psychotherapy
• Hypnosis
• Manuel Therapy, Osteopathy, Chirotherapy
• Kinesiology, O-Ring Test
• Phytotherapy
• Oxygen, respiration therapies and ozone

The most important thing for physicians who will use these methods is the cause-effect relationship. According to the cause-effect relationship, there are some disruptions, which underlie every illness. If these causes are detected, many illnesses can be treated permanently and effectively. If physicians use integrative medicine they may not even need advanced technological investigations.