Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine, by Edzard Ernst ( Editor ) ( 2008 ), reviewed in Metapsychology.

The National Institutes of Health's, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has funded a pilot study to determine whether a macrobiotic diet may prevent cancer.

* Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, an office of the National Cancer Institute

The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) classifies CAM therapies into five categories or domains, including: alternative medical systems, or complete systems of therapy and practice ; mind-body interventions, or techniques designed to facilitate the mind's effect on bodily functions and symptoms ; biologically based systems including herbalism ; and manipulative and body-based methods such as chiropractic and massage therapy.

" A Compassionate Autonomy Alternative to Speciesism ," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Volume 22, Number 3.

One author of an article published in the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine disagreed.

" Dream Interpretation, Psychology & Research, Nightmares & Alternative Medicine.

* Mind-Body Medicine: An Overview, US National Institutes of Health, Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

In 2000, the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( CAPCAM ) invited Drs.

The NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine states that overall, studies have shown that spinal manipulation can provide mild to moderate relief from low-back pain and appears to be as effective as conventional medical treatments.

Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

The U. S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has issued an advisory indicating the marketing claims made about colloidal silver are scientifically unsupported, the silver content of marketed supplements varies widely, and colloidal silver products can have serious side effects to the consumer, including " argyria ,... neurologic problems ( such as seizures ), kidney damage, stomach distress, headaches, fatigue, and skin irritation.

An article from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine points out silver nitrate and silver sulfadiazine can have negative side effects, and they must be applied to the body externally and not taken internally.

* Colloidal Silver information from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

" The American Cancer Society and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine have also found that there is no clinical or scientific evidence supporting claims that Reiki is effective in the treatment of any illness.

A 2009 review in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that " the serious methodological and reporting limitations of limited existing reiki studies preclude a definitive conclusion on its effectiveness.

" Likewise, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has echoed this position, noting that the existence of energy fields in biofield therapies, such as reiki, " has not yet been scientifically proven.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine cautioned of rare allergic reactions ( Asteraceae allergy ) and / or atopic dermatitis ( skin rash ).

* Chamomile fact sheet, NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) classifies CAM therapies into five categories or domains:

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) and other NIH-affiliated organizations hold that St John's wort has minimal or no effects beyond placebo in the treatment of major depression.

However, Dr. Wallace Sampson, an editor of Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and a Stanford University emeritus clinical professor of medicine, says that the referenced trials lack the similarities necessary to provide definitive results when combined into one report.

Orgone is regarded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine as a type of " putative energy ", a model which some therapists use for clinical procedures, for which specific measurement machines can be built.

Emotion, Seduction and Intimacy: Alternative Perspectives on Human Behaviour ( Third Edition ), Seattle: Libertary Editions.

* Top Ten Alternative Energy Leaders: Third Place, Business Facilities

Psychedelic rock band Monster Magnet have a song about the conspiracy, titled " Third Alternative " on their Dopes to Infinity album.

( 2010 ) Emotion, Seduction and Intimacy: Alternative Perspectives on Human Behaviour, Third Edition, Seattle: Libertary Co .. ISBN 978-1-935961-00-0, libertary. com

Andy Cox of TTA Press, which publishes The Third Alternative, then took ownership of Interzone.

* Millard L. Gieske, Minnesota Farmer-Laborism: The Third Party Alternative.

*" I, Haruspex ", ( ss ) The Third Alternative, # 16 1998

* " The Blue Magnolia "-originally published in The Third Alternative 22 ; Reprinted in the Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley

Third Position or Third Alternative refers to a revolutionary nationalist political position that emphasizes its opposition to both communism and capitalism.

Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini publicly advocated such a " Third Alternative ", such as in a speech in 1940 at the entry of Italy into World War II, saying:

* Alternative Rock: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion, Dave Thimpson.

While the format claimed itself as Modern AC, its musical lean favored Modern Rock / Alternative hits with an updated library of alternative hits from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s such as Nirvana, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Third Eye Blind and R. E. M.

* The Third Alternative ( aka: Black Static ), 1994 – present

* The Third Alternative ( Andy Cox, ed.

*" Black Static ", Paul Meloy ( The Third Alternative # 40 ) ( winner )

*" The Black Phone ", Joe Hill ( The Third Alternative # 39 )

*" You Will Hear the Locust Sing ", Joe Hill ( The Third Alternative # 37 )

* The Third Alternative ( ed.

* The Third Alternative UK