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

the use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health

an umbrella term for various New Age practices in which the conscious control of breathing is meant to influence mental, emotional and physical state – sometimes to claimed therapeutic effect.

in the context of alternative medicine, a healthy balance of the mind, body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being.