Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun alternative_medicine

1 sense of alternative medicine

Sense 1
alternative medicine -- (the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture)
       => medicine, practice of medicine -- (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard")