In a 1997 survey over two- thousand people 42 percent of the population surveyed said that they used at least one type of alternative therapy (www.journalclub.org 1). Every year more and more people find alternative or holistic medicine the way to prevent common ache and pains. Many even go as far as to say that these types of therapies could cure cancer, heart disease, and many other more serious diseases. The most popular of these alternative medicines are acupuncture, reflexology, magnet therapy, accupressure and herbal remedies. People use these therapies because alternative medicine is more cost affective, it has less drug or surgery side affects, and it also prevents and builds up the immune system, much better then Western Medicine does.

In the same 1997 survey it was estimated that the total out of pocket expenses for alternative medicine in the United States came to twenty seven billion dollars, compare...