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Post Debate: Alternative therapists outnumbering GPs; One in five of us has now tried some form of alternative medicine. Helen Gabriel asks if its continuing growth in popularity is a good thing.(News)

Byline: Helen Gabriel

There are more practitioners of alternative medicine working in the UK than GPs.

More than 47,000 people are offering to stick pins in your flesh, send you into a trance or pump you with medicine.

But the vast majority of practitioners can operate without qualifications. So what is alternative medicine?

It is notoriously difficult to define, partly because it includes such a wide spectrum of practices - acupuncturists, reflexologists, homeopaths, osteopaths and herbalists - but also because some practitioners refuse to accept there is ...

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