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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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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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