Is medicine divided into alternative medicine and conventional medicine?

Alternative medicine, also known as alternative therapy, is a supplementary therapy besides the conventional western medicine treatment defined in western countries. According to western customs, alternative medicine includes meditation therapy, hypnosis therapy, homeopathy, massage therapy, aromatherapy, vitamin therapy and so on. Traditional herbs and acupuncture also belong to it.

In China, there are Chinese medicine and western medicine, which are divided into clinical medicine, basic medicine, preventive medicine, emergency medicine and so on. The alternative medicine you are talking about is not the subject of treating diseases with drugs.