Draft:Alternative medicine glossary
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A glossary of terms originating from, and/or describing phenomena within, the alternative medicine (alt-med) movements.
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Panacea[edit]
A panacea is a treatment claimed to solve all, or a very wide range of unrelated medical problems, i.e. a "cure-all".[1] This is an extreme claim, and considered a red flag for quackery — one of the most obvious ones possible.[2]
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- Alternative Medicine Education — list of terms indicating various alt-med "credentials"
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- ↑ panacea, Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
- ↑ Paul Ingraham (2015). "Extraordinary Health Claims: A guide to critical thinking, skepticism, and smart Internet reading about health care". PainScience.com.
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