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alternative medicine

Acupuncture needles, most still in their packaging, sit on a black surface

Want to keep UTIs away? New study suggests acupuncture may help

K.R. Callaway • November 6, 2024

Alternative medicine has been around for centuries, and even today it may have yet another use

A heather blueberry plant takes up the whole frame. Small, dark blue berries dot a shrub with rounded leaves. Most leaves are bright green, some are orange and red.

The evolution of ethnobotany

Lauren Leffer • January 13, 2021

To save the plants, one scientific field highlights the importance of protecting Indigenous knowledge

An alternative to autism?

Roni Jacobson • January 29, 2013

Lack of certainty about the diagnosis leads many families to look outside mainstream medicine

Lavender and Old Lace

Madeleine Johnson • March 1, 2011

To calm agitated dementia patients some caregivers are turning away from sedatives and toward aromatherapy