Doctors trained in traditional Western ways are increasingly embracing and acknowledging therapies that fall into a category they call “complementary medicine.”
Acupuncture, nasal rinses, nutritional supplements and other approaches that many doctors formerly frowned upon – or at least were skeptical of – are becoming commonplace.
A national survey in 2007 found that almost 40 percent of Americans use complementary or alternative medicine, according to the National Institutes of Health.
