ABSTRACT
The contemporary world of alternative medicine and complementary and alternative medicine is a complex system, characterized by vibrancy, flux, and the impossibility of fully controlling or predicting where it will end. There is a feeling of "empowered powerlessness" when attempts to understand health as being simultaneously and perhaps equally a personal, local, and global issue, that is entangled with politics, science, religions, communities, relationships, environmental challenges, and everyday choices. Biomedical, complementary, or "alternative" practices and healing systems may not be neatly categorized and compartmentalized by extraneous criteria rooted inpreestablished Eurocentric frameworks of thought and health practice, as they are likely to perpetuate the limitations, constructions, and delimitations of mind. An orthodox attempt at concluding would provide a brief assessment of the state of affairs and make a reasoned prediction about the prospect of alternative medicine.
