alternative medicine

English Thesaurus

1. the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture (noun.act)

hypernym	:	medicine, practice of medicine,
definition	:	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 (noun.act)

hyponym	:	herbal medicine,
definition	:	the use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health (noun.act)