Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that describes an overview of CAM and its categories of treatments. Ensure you:
- Compare and contrast current conventional medicine regulations and oversights with regulation and oversight of alternative medicine in the United States.
- Define the terms alternative, complementary, and integrative in relation to medicine and discuss how these terms differ from one another.
- Describe how conventional medicine plays a role in alternative, complementary, and integrative medicine.
- Discuss the philosophy of CAM and how it is similar to or different from the approach of conventional Western medicine.
- Select one CAM therapy from among the alternative medicine approaches and describe how it can be used to treat a medical condition you choose. Include discussion of how your chosen therapy can be used as an alternative, a complementary, or an integrative therapy for that specific medical condition.
- Include the results of at least one scientific study that show a clinical benefit from the therapy you selected.
Use at least one reference in addition to NCCIH.