Description
1. Homeopathy
2. Any system of medical therapeutics that seeks to also treat the patient's conditions that are antecedent to any immediate, accepted causes of a complaint. These are the causes of the causes and typically are considered to lie in the mental and personality domains which in turn effect some postulated root physical force such as a vital spirit.
3. Any traditional system or theory of medicine that is pre-scientific such as the four humours, yin-yang, and various schools of the mind over matter persuasion.
4. Medicine practised by unqualified persons when replacing effective, scientifically proven or controlled methods by a supposed universal treatment of the body by electricity, magnetism, immersion in still or agitated water, immersion in mud, hypnosis, colours, music, yoga, massage, herbs, herbal packs and compresses, dietary regimes, copper bracelets and metallic talismans, and astrological charms or witchcraft.