Hello everyone!  I wanted to take a moment to tell you what my blog is about and what types of things you can look forward to in the future.  My subject is alternative and/or complementary medicine.  These terms refer to healing arts that are not typically taught in Western or conventional medical schools and are either used by patients instead of conventional medicine or at the same time as conventional treatments.  For example, if someone chooses treat their cancer using a macrobiotic diet instead of undergoing chemotherapy, surgery or radiation, they are using alternative medicine.  If a patient decides to eat a macrobiotic diet at the same time they are undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, they are using complementary medicine.

I will be covering a wide variety of topics relating to alternative and complementary medicine in my upcoming blogs, including different types of massage therapy, reflexology, herbal medicine, ayurveda and accupuncture, to name a few.  While I don't have any formal training in the alternative medical field (other than some training in herbology), I have been interested in the topic for a number of years.  I hope you find my blog both interesting and imformative to read.