There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted Marcia Angell (first woman editor-in-chief, NEJM) Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch both deserve enormous applause from the modern medical community for laying the foundation of alternative evidence based medicine being practiced today. Alternative, by definition is a very relative term. What might be regarded alternative today would quite possibly become mainstream in any domain and vice versa. The history of alternative medicine dates back to the history of human civilization. Allopathy or modern medicine by no means could compete with many these treatment options in terms of