I don't even think of it as alternative medicine. I think of it as complimentary medicine. None of the people I see outside of Western medicine have ever encouraged me to stop taking any of the medication I'm taking. They just add. In fact the last time I was in the hospital when I was in a great deal of pain, the woman who gives me the therapeutic massage and also does something, what's called Rake, which is a balancing of the energy, the balancing of the Jakras in the body. I called her and she came to the hospital to give me the massage and give me the rakey and I found that to be enourmously comforting.