■Alternative medicine
The term that a meaning called "the medical care that was usually used in substitution for medical care" was put with the alternative medicine (I say and possess it, alternative medicine which I held it). The alternative medicine is called the "supplement medical care" "complementarity medical care". It is difficult to finish classifying all the alternative medicine, but can classify it in four following types roughly.

１、Traditional medicine A thing with the results that I crossed it if long, and there was the history / the tradition that had been succeeded to, and a study had profundity and a system with the expanse by much tradition doctors in each country, and was able to support the health of the nation of each country in a for a long time more than several hundred years such as traditional Chinese medicine, qigong, Ayurveda (Indian medicine), Thai traditional medical medicine (Islam medicine). Till, after modern times, "Western medicine" comes out to the front; the thing that rather this one was the mainstream.
２、A folk remedy A thing by groupuscule crying to a national expanse. There are both the thing having the history and the thing which I appeared recently. Chiropractic, the osteopathy that originated in U.S.A.
３、Medical treatment concerning the nourishment A thing to expect an effect of as extension of the dietary cure. If there can be a specific meal, the thing of the meal method, there can be the thing of the meal ingredient. If even if completely take in the tablet of the same ingredient, in the case of a meal ingredient, use an insurance regime; called the normal medical care place it.
４、Even if was studied by 4, the doctor of the advanced cure Western medicine, and there was the used example in the part; the thing which is not yet recognized for standard treatment by most of doctors.

I do not depend on the medicine dosage and a surgical operation basically, and every cure for system promoting natural health is included in alternative medicine in this way. An article / the service of this field shows an expanse in the surge of the healthy boom (healthy intention) rapidly in Japan, but it is the present conditions that the inspection of the effectiveness of much alternative medicine is not always worse.

Meanwhile, in TTMA , it was based on cases more than 2000 at a point whether a Thai ancient rite massage was effective for health and improvement of the illness and inspected it. I give result to weight loss by nominating basal metabolism for results of research, alleviation of fever at the time of the fever and the relaxation of the symptom of a cold. （Such a technique teaches it to attendance raw people at an authorized school of TTMA.）