alternative medicine

C5923
concept

Alternative medicine is a broad range of health care practices, products, and therapies that are not typically part of conventional Western medical training or standard clinical practice, often emphasizing holistic, natural, or traditional approaches to healing.

All labels observed (12)

Label Occurrences
traditional medicine 4
traditional medicine system 3
alternative medicine canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: alternative medicine
Generated description
Alternative medicine is a broad range of health care practices, products, and therapies that are not typically part of conventional Western medical training or standard clinical practice, often emphasizing holistic, natural, or traditional approaches to healing.

Instances (12)

Instance Via concept surface
orthomolecular medicine
Siddha medicine traditional medicine system
Ayurveda traditional medicine system
Machi healing ceremony traditional medicine practice
ayahuasca
surface form: Ayahuasca
traditional medicine
Persian medicine component of traditional medicine
Reiki alternative medicine practice
Traditional Chinese medicine traditional medicine
Yangsheng traditional Chinese health practice
Western herbalism herbal medicine tradition
yagé traditional medicine
yage
surface form: Yage
traditional medicine