Alternative medicines have recently become more popular and more dangerous. Alternative medicine is basically where people with life-threatening illnesses go to other countries and receive treatment. Most countries advertise these medicines because they are trying to find a cure for diseases. Most of the time these medicines are prepared by people who know nothing about medicine or anything medical. Illegally, manufacturers can use clever names to make their products seem safe for a group such as the elderly. When in reality they will most likely kill or give people life long illnesses. Then they returned to the United States with a disease that could have infected others around them. If and when these people get sick they cannot be helped because this type of medicine has not been approved by the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration. If the FDA has not approved the product, there is no cure for the abnormal disease or abscess. The FDA requires that the "medicine" be safe for the people who use it. As a result, some drug manufacturers will add substances. Adding unknown substances can be very dangerous and unhygienic for the person using the substance/radiation. The FDA has proven all alternatives to be false. Alternative medicines have become more and more dangerous every time they are used, it is proven that most "doctors" are not properly trained and can be very unaware of the dangers they can cause to people. These people are in most cases very ill and can worsen the disease. The illness cannot be attributed to the "doctor" because he/she has been to that country and most likely signed some type of form just like you would in the U.S. Switzerland has had a recent increase in this method of medicine. Believing I had half the paper... I died. Doing these treatments usually gives the person a false sense of hope, they become very open and believe that the treatment will work. Alternative and complementary therapies differ in important ways, and the distinction between the two is crucial for clinical oncologists. Alternative medicine is a treatment used for surgery, radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy. They can be dangerous directly and also by delaying patients from receiving traditional care. They can provide symptom control and non-invasive palliation with minimal side effects, improve patient well-being and enhance cancer medicine. subjects of biochemical correction of addiction and alternatives to psychotropic drugs. These centers can treat drugs and alcohol. They can provide therapy for any type of addiction or problem with any unknown drug. "(Luwick)