Alternative medicine is one of the best solutions adopted by lots of people nowadays. For the ones who don't know, alternative medicine represents different styles of medicine that do not imply traditional medical treatment and normal medical procedure. The best examples that could define alternative medicine are acupuncture and electrotherapy. For lots of people, alternative medicine is still of myth and this is mostly because they didn't consider issues which would require the intervention of alternative medicine. Still, lots of other people are practicing it and are very proud of the results obtained.

So it is that acupuncture, the key of the Chinese traditional medical system, is one of the oldest and the most used alternative medical procedures in the whole world. Those who practice this procedure insert thin metal needles into the skin and have them controlled by hands or by electrical stimuli. Researchers have theorized that acupuncture works by offering equilibrium to the nervous system and to brain's functionality - both cases are supported by the body's natural capabilities. Acupuncture can help if you have nausea or vomiting, postoperative dental pain or knee osteoarthritis for example.

Moreover, electrotherapy consists in using electric power to stimulate tissues in order to cure various diseases or recover some lost functions of the body. It has been shown that bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and other body cells are positively influenced by electricity and that is why it is considered that by electric stimulation of cells, tissue damage can be healed. There are different electrotherapy procedures and the most known are cerebral stimulation, low-frequency currents, interferential currents (average frequency currents), ultrasound and microwave (high frequency) galvanic baths and ionization. These procedures can treat a high range of diseases, such as headache, postoperative pain, arthritis, hematoma, contusions, muscle stretching, lower-back morbidity, cellulites or even chronic constipation. Electrotherapy is known in the whole world and it functions as the best element of alternative medicine in curing some diseases.

Taking everything into account, it can be said that acupuncture and electrotherapy are two examples of the way alternative medicine functions. They do not imply medical treatments are mundane but in some cases they have an even greater effect that some medicines would. Still, there are also other ways of using alternative medicine such as: therapy with oils, plants and even therapy with light, referring to exposure to sun. All of these help curing different diseases ad that is why they are so much used in the whole world.