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Western societies have traditionally practiced conventional medicine based on a biomedical approach to disease. In contrast, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is nonmainstream and may be used to address, for example, physical or emotional symptoms of disease. Broadly defined, complementary medicine refers to treatments used in conjunction with conventional medicine, and alternative medicine refers to treatments chosen in lieu of conventional medicine (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health 2016a).
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