Alternative Medicine Holistic

Holistic medicine refers to alternative health practices that claim to treat "the whole person."

To holistic practitioners, a person is not just a body with physical parts and systems, but is a spiritual being as well. The mind and the emotions are believed to be connected to this spirit, as well as to the body.

Holistic practitioners are truly alternative in the sense that they often avoid surgery or drugs as treatments, though they are quite fond of meditation, prayer, herbs, plant extracts, fruit juices, vitamins, minerals and exotic diets as treatments for a variety of ailments.